"What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest."

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Millicent Fawcett

#Political Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.”
“I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.”
“Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.”
“Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.”

Source : Charles Wright (2004). “Snake eyes”
“Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just how much sadness my death will cause you. Undoubtedly you will weep when you learn the news--apart, of course, from such ornamental sentimentality as you may indulge in--but if you will please try to think of my joy at being liberated completely from the suffering of living and this hateful life itself, I believe that your sorrow will gradually dissolve.”

Source : "The Setting Sun".
“I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.119, Clear Press Ltd
“so much depends upon a red wheel barrow”
“Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.”

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