"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !"

-- Camille Paglia

#Grandmother Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.”
“If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.”
“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”
“How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwennâ€™s gift?â€ â€œNo, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdomâ€™s â€˜humbleâ€™ gift.”
“The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.”
“The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.”
“Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.”
“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.”

Source : George Plimpton (2003). “George Plimpton on Sports”, Lyons Press

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