Ethel Smyth Quotes
I feel I must fight for my music, because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.
Ethel Smyth
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
Watkin Tudor Jones
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
Jack Ma
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
Zaha Hadid
A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
Katha Pollitt
'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
Pamela Sargent
You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.
Xenophon
I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
Barton Gellman
Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
Walter Lang
You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
Rahm Emanuel
Mankind should bring together all of its technology and wisdom to work hard so they can development treatments, medicines and vaccines.
Toshiro Muto
