"Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world."

-- Jane Swisshelm

#Beauty Quotes #Work Quotes #Mean Quotes

“To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.”
“Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”
“My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.”
“Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.”
“During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.”
“I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.”
“Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.”
“Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.”

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