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. . . the ship struck at ten minutes after four A.M., and all hands, being mostly in their... More
... a bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ... More
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns,... More
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to... More
... a legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black,... More
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic... More
... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation. More
... advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. More
... all big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. More
... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of... More
... all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when... More
... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or... More
... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less... More
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. More
... as women become free, economic, social factors, so becomes possible the full social... More
... aside from the financial aspect, [there] is more: the life of my work. I feel that is all I... More
... black progress and progress for women are inextricably linked in contemporary American... More
... but I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that... More
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books—with... More
... children do not take war seriously as war. War is soldiers and soldiers have not to be war... More
... contemporary black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that... More
... criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification... More
... each of them is inhabited by a bland demon, as the German metaphysicians used to call that... More
... every day is any day. More
... every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or... More
... every one is as their land is, as the climate is, as the mountains and the rivers or their... More
... exchanging platitudes, as Frenchmen do, for the pleasure of feeling their mouths full of the... More
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I... More
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for... More
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child’s play to bridge oceans and continents,... More
... for twenty years ... to speak of culture has meant that one did not have it. The only people... More
... for, however roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man. More
... friendship ... is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like... More
... frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like... More
... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl’s acquiring the... More
... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if... More
... ideals, standards, aspirations,—those are chameleon words, and take color from their... More
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the... More
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on... More
... if we look around us in social life and note down who are the faithful wives, the most... More
... if young women have a problem, it’s only that they think there’s no problem. More
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as... More
... in any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides... More
... in the fierce competition of modern society the only class left in the country possessing... More
... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically... More
... individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas... More
... intensity commands form. More
... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of... More
... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official... More
... it is easier for a camel to pass through the needle’s eye than for anything really chic to... More
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole... More
... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained... More
... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own... More
... it is only after years and years that you can speak of penury in the midst of opulence, of... More
... it is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they... More
... it is use, and use alone, which leads one of us, tolerably trained to recognize any criterion... More
... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service... More
... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was... More
... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only... More
... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has... More
... literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out... More
... Live!/and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. More
... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans. More
... lynching was ... a woman’s issue: it had as much to do with ideas of gender as it had with... More
... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of... More
... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects... More
... memory is the only way home. More
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. More
... more and more I like to take a train I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling,... More
... my soul stood erect, exultant, envisioning a new world where the light of justice for every... More
... near a war it is always not very near. More
... no gentleman lies, on any occasion, with unmixed pleasure. He feels, rather, as if he had put... More
... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack... More
... nobody nobody wants to learn either by their own or anybody else’s experience, nobody does,... More
... non-use of rights does not destroy them. More
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the... More
... not only do ... women suffer ... indignities in daily life, but the literature of the world... More
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their... More
... often the empowering strategies we use in the arena of love and friendship are immediately... More
... one of art photography’s most vigorous enterprises—[is] concentrating on victims, on the... More
... our great-grandmothers were prudes. The reason why they talked so much about their souls, I... More
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary... More
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all—even as we forge different individual... More
... prejudice marks a mental land mine. More
... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination. More
... prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic... More
... should one sit down to paint the scenes among which he has grown, he will find that the facts... More
... so long as woman labors to second man’s endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her... More
... solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry... More
... that phrase of mischievous sophistry, “all men are born free and equal.” This false and... More
... the aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. More
... the art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. More
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time—about six months will do it. Any more than... More
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a... More
... the French know that you must not succeed you must rise from the ashes and how could you rise... More
... the function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible. More
... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the... More
... The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of... More
... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and... More
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more... More

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