"I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts."

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Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Ernestine Rose

#Reality Quotes #Romance Quotes #Stubborn Quotes

“The art of publicity is a black art.”
“I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.”

Source : "The big cheese: The crazy life of Gérard Depardieu" by James Mottram, www.independent.co.uk. April 30, 2011.
“You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!”

Source : "Steven Spielberg's Counterlife" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com. 2012.
“I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.”
“I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you want to marry another woman that you can do that and have a contract. But the thing is is the religious connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of years, I still want to preserve that. And you probably could have both. You could have both traditional marriage, which I believe in. And then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another.”
“The only way faith can be relevant is by preparing the mind to receive it.”
“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
“Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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