"Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory."

-- Alice Duer Miller

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“I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.”
“I think it's better to have ideas.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rufus". "Dogma", www.independent.co.uk. 1999.
“I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.”
“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.”
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.”
“We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.”
“As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.”
“Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.”

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