"He who would not fall off the precipice must not venture too near the edge."

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Source : Frances J. Roberts (2013). “On the Highroad Of Surrender - Updated”, p.127, Barbour Publishing

Frances J Roberts

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“Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.”

Source : Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press
“Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“It is what a woman, leaves off, not what she puts on that gives her cachet”
“We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women”
“Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.”
“I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.”

Source : "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.
“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.”
“Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.”

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