"Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave."

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Eaton Stannard Barrett

#Women Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Crosses Quotes

“To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be â€œreached out toâ€ in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.”
“There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.”
“I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.”
“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.”

Source : Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2
“I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information.”
“This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.”
“I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.”
“Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here”

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