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The United States was not at risk of an imminent fascist takeover in the late 1930s, but there was certainly fertile terrain in which dictatorship might be able to take root.
“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
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“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
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“Neglect of women is the major cause for the society’s downfall.”
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“The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“I do have a phone in New York. One night—at one in the morning!—I was awakened by Miss Bette Davis, the actress, calling from California to tell me how much she admired something of mine. She had no idea that it was anything later than ten o’clock at night where I was. “I don’t mind that, but in March, just before I left, the phone rang and a voice said: ‘We are going to castrate you and then kill you.’ All I could say to that was: ‘I think you have the wrong number.’ I’m quite sure he did.…”
― W. H. Auden: In the Autumn of the Age of Anxiety
― W. H. Auden: In the Autumn of the Age of Anxiety
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