"I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work."

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Source : Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2008). “Women impressionists”

Mary Cassatt

#Independent Quotes #History Quotes

“I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.”

Source : Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr
“I don't want to die without a few scars..”
“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.”
“Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.”
“Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.”
“I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.”
“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

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