"Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men...They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty."

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Source : "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 6". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

Robert Owen

#Men Quotes #Rights Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.”
“The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.”
“I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.”
“[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.”
“I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.”
“Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.”
“I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.”
“One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.”

Source : "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme. Chapter: "Reifications", p. 188, 1997.

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