"Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men."

-- Howard Zinn

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Female Quotes

“Most men will not swim before they are able to.â€ Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, whatâ€™s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.”
“I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.”
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function”
“Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song- or as he says, â€˜putting some balls into it'- isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.”
“When I was in film school at USC, I wrote my thesis script about a woman on Wall Street - specifically a woman who used to work at Morgan Stanley, sort of based on her life. Through that process, I did some research.”
“Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.”

Source : George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.27
“People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.”
“I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.”

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