"our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually."

-- Lydia M. Child

#Government Quotes #Class Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.”
“No man is happy but by comparison.”

Source : Thomas Shadwell (1966). “The Virtuoso”, p.53, U of Nebraska Press
“We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence...”
“Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.”
“At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.”
“It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.”
“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”
“I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.10, Macmillan

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