"...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything"

-- AndreÃ¯ Makine

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“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.”
“Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.”
“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”

Source : Robin McKinley (2016). “The Blue Sword”, p.8, HarperCollins
“No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?”
“No historical analogies are exactly precise.”
“Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.”
“I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.”

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