"Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence."

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Source : Genevieve Taggard (1936). “Calling Western union”

Genevieve Taggard

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“In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.”
“My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.”

Source : Frances E.W. Harper (1990). “Iola Leroy: Or Shadows Uplifted”, p.263, Oxford University Press
“Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread”
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
“The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.”
“One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.”
“Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.”

Source : "The gentle art of showing off". Interview With Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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