"Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting."

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Source : Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)

Janet Flanner

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“It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.”
“It was man who first made men believe in gods.”
“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.”
“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”
“On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.”
“I'm not as good as I want to be, But I'm twice as good as you think I am.”
“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.”
“I thought about the difference between a mama's girl and a daddy's girl. I decided that a daughter who belongs to her daddy expects gifts, while a daughter who belongs to her mama expects a lot more. Not from her mama. From herself.”

Source : Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon (2010). “Zora and Me”, p.69, Candlewick Press

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