"Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death."

-- Peter Ackroyd

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“Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.”
“What you feel, what you desire and what you want is not what you are. You are a consciousness. Speak consciously and speak what your consciousness allows you to speak.”
“I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.”

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“I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here, and behold breathlessly the sight; how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light. Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, out of respect for those that fought for this?”
“Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.”
“the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.”
“me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.”
“We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.”

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