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Sarah Moore Grimke

"Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life."

Source : "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.

Sarah Moore Grimke

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“Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.”
“All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.”
“For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand
“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
“Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.”
“Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.”

Source : "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.
“I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.”
“Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.”

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