"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."

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Source : Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.368, U of Nebraska Press

Willa Cather

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“Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.”
“Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.”
“Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.”
“I don't even think you know how great you really are. I believe in you.”
“The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.”
“There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.”
“If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”

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