Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.
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Create Personalise WishesFeminism has never been about getting…
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
130We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons…
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
16A feminist is anyone who…
The Platonic idealist is the man
The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests
22History is a pack of lies about…
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten
21To feel beauty is a better thing than…
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
40Nothing is really so poor…
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
22There is wisdom in turning as often…
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
21We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes…
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
35The muffled syllables that Nature speaks…
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
Advertising is the modern substitute…
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
21love make us poets…
We must welcome the future…
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
18There is no cure for birth…
Beauty as we feel it is….
There are books in which the footnotes…
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.
19To be happy you must have taken the measure…
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
30The world is not respectable….
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
31Both optimists and pessimists…
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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