"Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women."

-- M. Carey Thomas

#Education Quotes #College Quotes #House Quotes

“Communism:Â Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty”
“We belong to the race that knows Joseph”
“I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.”

Source : "Adele - The Biography". Book by Chas Newkey-Burden, 2011.
“I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.”
“The biggest threat to the regime is information.”
“It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.”
“I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?”

Source : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
“The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.”

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