Ron Stafford

“Supporters of the two men believed they were victims of a deeply ingrained prejudice against immigrants and radicals.”
― Nicola Sacco, The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti

“So, the image to start. The perception of the world as it is, the phantasm, the flare of the visionary idea is flattened to a page by the male intellect. Controlled, categorized, c-a-t-a-l-o-g-u-e-d. The ethereal is quashed. Address, that beautiful oration announcing itself, becomes a dress feebly worn, becomes a picture of a dress in a catalogue.”
― Norah Vincent, Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
― Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby