"Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!"

-- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

#Fighting Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.”
“Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.”
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”

Source : Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.70, Infobase Publishing
“I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.”
“The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.”

Source : Geoff Dyer (2014). “Paris Trance: A Romance”, p.95, Macmillan
“... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of menâ€™s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasnâ€™t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masonsâ€™ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!”
“Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.”

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