"It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes."

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“Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?”
“You canâ€™t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you â€”- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because theyâ€™re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I donâ€™t believe in God. Because he doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. Even if itâ€™s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a personâ€™s past canâ€™t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If thatâ€™s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isnâ€™t that like being god?”
“For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.”
“There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions.”
“What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.”
“A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.”
“The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.”
“The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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