"where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ..."

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Rights Quotes #Class Quotes #Community Quotes

“What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.”
“We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than just another girl who has one. We should be able to do these things without failing the feminism of our mothers, and we should be able to represent women who hurt without walking backward into a voyeuristic rehashing of the old cultural models.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.174, Granta Books
“A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.”
“Donâ€™t beÂ afraid to give up the good for the great.”
“Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone”

Source : Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.129, Oxford University Press
“All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.”
“For me, intrigue is a pretty powerful emotion. If you want to know more about a character, if you want to understand how they work, then you have enough curiosity to delve into their skin and their being. That was the biggest pull for me.”
“To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.”

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