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“Women should be someone and not something.”
Source : Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt (2005). “Mary Cassatt”, Chaucer Pr
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“Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.”
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“A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.†She would not miss this place.”
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“The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.”
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“Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.”
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“I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.”
Source : "Letters of Edward Lear: To Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances Countess Waldegrave".
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“For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.”
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“We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!”
Source : Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011. 
