"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

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Source : Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.32, Ellen Key

Ellen Key

#Self Quotes #Movement Quotes #Affirmation Quotes

“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.”
“It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in the theater and then with a huge audience of 1,800 people backing you up and cheering you on. It's a really amazing feeling.”
“It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.”
“Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.”

Source : Percy Dearmer (1915). “Patriotism”
“The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.”

Source : "After the CIA, Barry Eisler writes thrillers". Interview with Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. July 25, 2010.
“I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.”
“Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.”
“One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference?”

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