I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one h...undred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bill... is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the lo...ngest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TI--E Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.... Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight. Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poetic ...youth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave ...case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner's claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, 'A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, the five hundred was the sum they named To pay the doctor's bill and tide me over.... It's that or fight, and I don't want to fight I just want to get settled in my life....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »