Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Ra...nd and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their n...ext look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since time immemorial, one the dry earth, scraped to the bone, of this immeasurable country, a few men travelled ceaselessly, they... owned nothing, but they served no one, free and wretched lords in a strange kingdom. Janine did not know why this idea filled her with a sadness so soft and so vast that she closed her eyes. She only knew that this kingdom, which had always been promised to her would never be her, never again, except at this moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A ...conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Corner Store, near the village center, hangs a large sign reading: 'After 40 years of credit business, we have closed our b...ook of Sorrow.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stret...ches, I have been a disappointed woman.... I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being--every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, or... we are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »