"Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history."

-- Ellen DuBois

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“We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog 'I' that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Savage bears agree with one another.”
“Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.”

Source : "Apocalypse Iowa". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 04, 2012.
“I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cÃ©rÃ©brale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a CÃ©rÃ©brale or You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming'. Only, of course, to be accepted as authentic, to carry any conviction, it would have to be written by a man. What a pity, what a pity!”
“Even monkeys fall out of trees.”
“My father represented authority, which meantâ€”to meâ€”that he could not also represent understanding.”
“Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.”
“I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.”

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