"[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern."

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Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.86

Sarah Moore Grimke

“God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.”
“I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.”
“It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.”
“Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.”

Source : "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.
“We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.”
“My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.”
“Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.”
“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.”

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