Quotes
Authors
Joan Wallach Scott

"What I mean by the common good is that we understand we're all part of something bigger than ourselves, that we live in societies together and must help take care of one another because you never know when you're going to need to be taken care of by others. And it's not enough to say that your family or your church is going to take care of you. Societies are collective entities, we're meant to be connected to one another; the function of government is to administer that connection."

Source : L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.21, Macmillan

Joan Wallach Scott

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
“Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?”

Source : The Spectator, January 15, 1994.
“I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.”
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
“Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1870). “The Scholemaster”, p.34
“I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.”
“If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.”

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