"I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names are not up there next to male names that we've know since we were little kids. Ching Shih, for example, was a pirate commander from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. She was one of the most fearsome pirates, why is her name not included when we list the names of great pirates like Blackbeard?"

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Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

Anita Sarkeesian

#Book Quotes #Kids Quotes #Names Quotes

“Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness.... The realization of love always remains mysterious.”
“A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.”
“To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.”
“When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion, although we might the clergy and bring them into contempt where we could: but to establish a system of state - we said national - schools, from which all religion was to be excluded.”

Source : Orestes Augustus Brownson (1833). “An Address on Intemperance: Delivered in Walpole, N.H. February 26, 1833”
“I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.”
“Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.”
“Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.”

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