"Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane."

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Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

Abraham Pais

#Stars Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Yellow Quotes

“The big leap that happened to me and my business came to me when one of my rules disappeared... So much of what we believed about money was complete bullshit. An old rule that we'd been carrying around for years suddenly vanished.”
“There are plenty of wonderful, good fat people in the USA that have no problems being fat, who I have no problems with being fat.”
“But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.”
“I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.”
“Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.”

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