"The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'"

-- Christina Romer

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“It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the basis of Futurist theory, in no way required one to paint nothing but speeding cars or ballerinas in action; for a person who is seated, or an inanimate object, though apparently static, could be considered dynamically and suggest dynamic forms. I may mention as an example the 'Portrait of Madame S.' (1912) and the 'Seated Woman' (1914).”

Source : "Letters of the great artists". Book by Richard Friedenthal, p. 248, 1963.
“Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women ...”
“...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself, can hardly be ignorant of the things which proceed from It and of which It is the source. This, then, is how God knows all things, not by understanding things, but by understanding Himself.”
“If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you.”
“Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.”
“I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.81, Penguin
“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.”
“It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.”

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