"When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little."

-- Dale Spender

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Past Quotes

“I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”
“The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.”
“That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.”
“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”
“Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.”

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1851). “The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.294
“I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.”

Source : "10 Questions: Jil Sander". Interview with Lauren Goldstein, content.time.com. September 9, 2003.
“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”

Source : Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.28, Beacon Press
“I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.”

Source : "My Favorite Movie: Zoe Lister-Jones" by Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. June 04, 2012.

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