"If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror."

-- Paula Fox

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“We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2007). “The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After”, p.233, Vintage
“The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that todayâ€™s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.”
“Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.”
“Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.”
“...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.”
“You know I could have stayed in my comfortable chair in South Wales having the first Welsh team that got promoted and been there a number of years, but for me I wanted to work at a club that was world class and at the very, very top.”
“I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.”
“... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.”

Source : Dale Spender (1983). “Feminist theorists: three centuries of key women thinkers”, Pantheon

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