"I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique."

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Source : May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”

May Kendall

#Museums Quotes #Profound Quotes #Bird Quotes

“I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.”

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“I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.”
“There is only one way to learn. It's through action.”
“Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.”
“You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself”
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
“The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.”

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“The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.”

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