So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought d...own politically to the level of those others disfranchised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she be...came a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty on...e can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believ...e that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I n...ow am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't say much for the women though. But oh, the girls. All Malayan females should be poisoned at twenty-one. Before that they'r...e--mmmh!... Oh yes, they're dark. But the longer you're there, the whiter they get. Well that's the way it seems.... I'll never forget the first time I saw them. We sailed into a little harbor about sundown, and the girls came swimming out. Flowers in their long hair. Singing and laughing upward through the water. Brown skinned. It seemed like gold to me. A richer, deeper gold than any metal. I can see that gold shimmer even now on their wet bodies. And they swam like mermaids to the rail and climbed on board. Laughing at us like a bunch of shameless imps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other h...uman being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But one of the great misconceptions of modern life is the assumption that by the magic age of twenty-one we are jelled, dreams in ...place, ready to tackle the adult world and leave childhood behind. All we lack, according to this myth, is experience. The reality is that many of us lack quite a bit more: a psychic passport to adulthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a vo...ter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »