"For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier."

-- Stacy Schiff

#Years Quotes #Voice Quotes #Finals Quotes

“Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! Magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.”

Source : "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
“Surely I have contemplated the things of God.”
“My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.”
“What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them”

Source : Andrew Combe (1871). “The Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral: Intended Chiefly for the Use of Parents”, p.251
“The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time â€” including life â€” and that doesn't mean it's special.”
“If you come to doubt, I'll give you every reason to doubt. If you come suspicious, I'll give you every reason to be suspicious. But if you come seeking Love, I'll show you more love than you've ever known”
“We must look at ourselves with the strictest eyes.”
“The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918”

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