Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social or...der is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar, ...and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember these (you said) who when the earth-quake shook their city,... when angry blast and fire broke open their frail door, did not forget beauty. LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor,... She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind! The fire is dreadful in her eyes no more; From her bold front the helm she doth unbind, Sends all her handmaid armies back to spin, And bids her navies, that so lately hurled Their crashing battle, hold their thunders in, Swimming like birds of calm along the unharmful shore. No challenge sends she to the elder world, That looked askance and hated; a light scorn Plays o'er her mouth, as round her mighty knees She calls her children back, and waits the morn Of nobler day, enthroned between her subject seas.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! joyous hearts! enfired with holy flame! Is speech thus tasseled with praise?... Will not your inward fire of joy contain: That it in open flames doth blaze? For in Christ's coach saints sweetly sing, As they to glory ride therein.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This Indian camp was a slight, patched-up affair, which had stood there several weeks, built shed-fashion, open to the fire on the... west.... Altogether it was about as savage a sight as was ever witnessed, and I was carried back at once three hundred years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was very agreeable, as well as independent, thus lying in the open air, and the fire kept our uncovered extremities warm enough.... The Jesuit missionaries used to say, that, in their journeys with the Indians in Canada, they lay on a bed which had never been shaken up since creation, unless by earthquakes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.... From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »