Quotes
Authors
Frances Trollope

"Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for."

Source : Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.225

Frances Trollope

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“Be bold, be courageous, be your best.”

Source : "Giffords Urges Graduates at Bard to ‘Be Courageous’" by Vivian Yee, autoglassweek.com. May 25, 2013.
“Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.”
“I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
“Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.”
“Im pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.”
“Early access is very valuable, there are a lot of consumers who would love to see something early.”
“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”

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