... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them ...so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank." ...This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear their... full share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford, Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,... Among the bathtubs and the washbasins A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must bear in mind the distinction between fame and honor. A virtuous person is an honorable person, a person who ought to be ho...nored by the community in which he or she lives. But the virtuous person does not seek honor, being secure in his or her own self-respect. Lack of honor does not in any way detract from the efficacy of moral virtue as an indispensable operative means in the pursuit of happiness.... Those totally lacking in virtue may achieve fame as readily as, perhaps even more easily than those who are virtuous. Fame belongs to the great, the outstanding, the exceptional, without regard to virtue or vice. Infamy is fame no less than good repute. The great scoundrel can be as famous as the great hero; there can be famous villains as well as famous saints. Existing in the reputation a person has regardless of his or her accomplishments, fame does not tarnish as honor does when it is unmerited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment,... From livid curtain's hue, a tangram emerges: a country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Popeye, forced as you know to flee the country One musty gusty evening, by the schemes of his wizened, duplicate father, jea...lous of the apartment And all that it contains, myself and spinach In particular, heaves bolts of loving thunder At his own astonished becoming...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than ...I had. Then I moved up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The condition that is now called gay was then called queer. The operative word was faggot and, later, pussy, but those epithets re...ally had nothing to do with the question of sexual preference: You were being told simply that you had no balls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A language is therefore a horizon, and style a vertical dimension, which together map out for the writer a Nature, since he does n...ot choose either. The language functions negatively, as the initial limit of the possible, style is a Necessity which binds the writer's humour to his form of expression. In the former, he finds a familiar History, in the latter, a familiar personal past. In both cases he deals with a Nature, that is, a familiar repertory of gestures, a gestuary, as it were, in which the energy expended is purely operative, serving here to enumerate, there to transform, but never to appraise or signify a choice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »