"The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency."

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Source : Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.9, Harper Collins

Gail Collins

#War Quotes #Black And White Quotes #America Quotes

“You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.”
“He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.”
“I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.”
“War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization”

Source : "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.
“What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”
“We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.”
“The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.”
“Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.”

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