"During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women."

-- Karen DeCrow

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“The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.”
“So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.”

Source : John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.158, New York, D. Appleton
“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”
“I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.”
“I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.”
“Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you don't even know what someone looks like or what his or her voice sounds like? I've enjoyed connecting with a lot of poets through social media, but do I truly know them if I haven't even met them yet?”

Source : Source: atticusreview.org
“A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.”
“The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburgâ€™s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.”

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