"What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison."

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Source : 1806 Leonora, letter 1.

Maria Edgeworth

#Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Rays Quotes

“I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.”
“I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.”
“How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.”

Source : Song: Fashion Victim, Album: Starry Starry Night
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
“When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.”

Source : "Radio talk show host Larry Elder". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.
“I showed sideboob. I don't need to show ass. You get one or the other. You don't get both.”
“I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.”

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