"You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

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Source : "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt". Short story by ary McCarthy, first published in "Partisan Review", 1941.

Mary McCarthy

#Favourite Quotes #Chaucer Quotes #Quotations Quotes

“I have tried so hard to do the right.”
“Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs”
“â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term â€œinternalized racismâ€- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term â€œwhite supremacyâ€ enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise â€œwhite supremacist controlâ€ over other black people.”
“Happy people are rarely interesting.”
“And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.”
“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”
“And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”
“Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!”

Source : Interview with Rachel Barenblat, www.pifmagazine.com. August 1999.

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