That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different ...periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By this contrivance the machinery of my work is of a species by itself; two contrary motions are introduced into it, and reconcile...d, which were thought to be at variance with each other. In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too,--and at the same time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance wit...h it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and... glimpses of that long life of our ancestors which still goes on among so many of our contemporaries. Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race. To shut one's self away from that half of the race life is to shut one's self away from the most vital part of it; it is to live out but half the humanity to which we have been born heir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, wome...n are beginning to rise in response to the Mother's call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get a...way from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then--but they were not roses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that da...y. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see it ... it is inevitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »