"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"

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Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Ernestine Rose

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“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.”

Source : In Observer 30 Apr. 1950
“We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.”
“Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.”
“Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.”

Source : "Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.
“It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel.”
“The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.”
“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”

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