"My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969."

-- Camille Paglia

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“If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.”

Source : 'Reasons for Drinking'
“The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.”
“I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.”
“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

Source : E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation
“I love being able to help and encourage my friends and I try to inspire them as they do me.”
“I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I do think there's something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We're in this very weird place where we're being pulled into experiences that aren't really experiences at all.”

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