"The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm."

-- Mary C. Ames

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“I think a good story, well told is a good story, well told, whether you're watching the episodes all in a row or not. However, it might be fun to take a closer look at how the previous episode ends and how that end relates to the beginning of the next episode.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.”
“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”
“I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.”
“A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.98, Hachette UK
“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.”

Source : Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.10, Pan Macmillan
“I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.”
“After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.”

Source : Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War”

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