"I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation."

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Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Kevin Starr

#Art Quotes #Kids Quotes #Yearbook Quotes

“A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.”
“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”

Source : George Fitzhugh (1854). “Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society”, p.7, [s.n.]
“The historian amputates reality.”
“A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.”
“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Source : "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.
“I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.”

Source : "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, 2010.
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”
“A blind man can see how much I love you”

Source : Amy Bloom (2003). “Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude”, Vintage

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