"Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man."

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.”
“It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way.”
“Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.”
“I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!”
“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.”
“Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.”
“The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years”
“The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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