The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These st...orms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are enough Left overs to do, warmed-up, for the rest of the week--... Not that we have much appetite, having drunk such a lot, Stayed up so late, attempted--quite unsuccessfully-- To love all our relatives, and in general Grossly overestimated our powers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a sense of going my own way, and I don't really think much about whether it's going against the grain. I don't really want ...to spend a lot of time worrying about how I am perceived by other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more... education than most white people."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My consciousness-raising group is still going on. Every Monday night it meets, somewhere in Greenwich Village, and it drinks a lot... of red wine and eats a lot of cheese. A friend of mine who is in it tells me that at the last meeting, each of the women took her turn to explain, in considerable detail, what she was planning to stuff her Thanksgiving turkey with. I no longer go to the group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good ...copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ransom Stoddard: I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna kill 'em. I wanna put 'em in jail. Tom Donophon: Well, I... know those law books mean a lot to you. But not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems. Ransom Stoddard: No. Do, do you know what you're saying to me? D'you know? You're saying exactly what Liberty Valance said. What kind of community have I come to. You all seem to know about this fellow Liberty Valance. He's a no-good, gun-packing murdering thief. But the only advice you can give to me is to carry a gun. Well, I'm a lawyer. Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law. And the law is the only, the only.... [he collapses]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends.... I wish I'd never been born.... I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You live on hopes, I guess. You always dream that someday you might have a lot of money, your ship might come in. But if the ship ...doesn't come in, I'm going to work as long as I can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »