"If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive."

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“Iâ€™d ask you to hang out with us, but youâ€™re not supposed to see me this way.â€™â€¦ â€˜What way?â€™ I ask. â€˜Drunk?â€™ â€˜Yeahâ€¦well, no.â€™ His voice softens. â€˜Real, I guess.â€™ â€˜Iâ€™ll pretend I didnâ€™t.â€™ â€˜Nice of you.â€™ He puts his lips next to my ear and says, â€˜You look good, Tris.â€™â€¦ I laugh. â€˜Do me a favor and stay away from the chasm, okay?â€™ â€˜Of course.â€™ He winks at me.”
“Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.”

Source : "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago — Now it’s Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.
“We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.”
“I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.”

Source : Samuel Alito's letter (1985), as quoted in "Alito denied that Constitution protected abortion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2005.
“He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and trousers, and was there thoroughly alarmed by the cat's stalking round and round and making motions as if it proposed to sit upon him. He waited until he believed himself to be unobserved, then he picked it up, opened a window, and tossed it out. Despite falling three storeys to the ground, the cat survived, but one of its legs was never quite right afterward and it always evinced the greatest dislike of gentlemen in black clothes.”
“It's always been my mom and I against the world.”
“The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.”
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

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