"So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman."

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Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.162, Faber & Faber

Andrew Sean Greer

#Gentleman Quotes #Easy Quotes

“Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.”
“I â€¦ noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.”
“A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.”
“Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.”
“in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.”
“The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.”
“Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).”
“The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.”

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