"Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits."

-- Phyllis Schlafly

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“I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.”

Source : Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.203, Univ of California Press
“Itâ€™s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. Weâ€™d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.”
“To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.”

Source : 1889 On the London dock strike.
“There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.”
“Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.”
“Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.”
“The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.”

Source : "Jason Gann Exclusive Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2011.
“everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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