"Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!"

-- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

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“Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.
“Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.”
“I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.”

Source : Zona Gale (1907). “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre”
“Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.”
“He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides”

Source : Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”
“With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.”
“To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.”
“I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.”

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