Determination and skill come out of a depth of political and cultural experiences. Women resist and are brave in the most ordinary...-seeming situations: on a welfare line, after being told that medical benefits are going to cut; on a street late at night helping a sister who is being harassed; as a mother demanding that the hospital stop experimenting with sterilization on her daughters; one sister to another trying to convince her to stop shooting up because it's giving the man a victory, swallowing up her life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of per...spiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration--out, ...fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, avarice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to eve...ry question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood--for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart:... Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have ar...ranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of n...o organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes does it make any difference whether Shake...speare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if A Midsummer Night's Dream was really a dream?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must be wise, in order to sniff out and weigh these mighty books, and swift in the hunt and brave in the battle; then, by care...ful reading and frequent reflection, crack open the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »