"Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood."

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Amelia Bloomer

#Race Quotes #Doctrine Quotes #Concerned Quotes

“I'm not coming in to teach and play the big veteran guy. I'm coming in to win games.”
“I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.”
“I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.”
“I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.61, Oxford University Press
“Beware the hobby that eats.”
“It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is incredibly rewarding, working and interacting with people to create funny moments. I can't imagine not doing acting or stand-up, I really enjoy both of them that much.”
“I can't give a decent toast to save my life.”
“I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.”

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