"society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people."

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Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

Geraldine Jewsbury

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.”
“A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.”

Source : Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster
“An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.”

Source : "Monsieur". Book by Lawrence Durrell, 1974.
“You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.”
“I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification of something by art history doesn't make any sense. The point is, if you have a loving, adorable, supportive mother anywhere in the world and you tell her all of your dreams, all of your aspirations, and the reward you would like, and she understands you, then it's not worth doing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.25, Library of Alexandria
“The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet still a little too subjective for anyone to ever fully agree on. What do I most wish to see in a political poet? Sublimated rebellion.”
“God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.”

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