“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Chance
― Chance
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”
― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.”
― Burnt Shadows
― Burnt Shadows
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