Ernestine Rose Quotes
For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
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To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
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People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
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We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
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To me, right there, enough said - Kobe Bryant (third team), not acceptable.
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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
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I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
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If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
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Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.
