"continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own."

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Source : Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”

Eleanor Rathbone

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“Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.”
“There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.”
“I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan
“There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.”
“I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.”
“Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.”

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