"I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice."

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Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

Victoria Woodhull

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“It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.”
“We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.”
“Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an art, related to cooking, instead of a true science. They have their moments, and their sources of legitimate pride. They don't split atoms, as the physicists do. They join them together, and a very praiseworthy activity that is.”
“I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.”
“Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.”
“Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.”

Source : Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.324, Knopf
“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.”

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