"I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ..."

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Source : Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis (1992). “The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography”, p.301, SUNY Press

Fanny Lewald

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“Respect is EARNED but honor is GIVEN.”
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
“Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.”

Source : "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.
“The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.”
“There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.”
“Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.”
“I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.”
“Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.”

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