"It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul."

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Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#Wise Quotes #Soul Quotes #Lawyer Quotes

“In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.”
“Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.”
“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”
“Nothing but good times ahead.”
“In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.”
“Because I couldn't go for three.”
“The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.”
“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.”

Source : "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.

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