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 »
... there were the hangers-on, students who became involved in the movement--any movement--because it was emotionally satisfying. ...At Chicago, there are few activities in which "everybody" participates, and the lack is especially felt by the younger undergraduates. A sit-in can fuse them into a hot, steamy mass of singing, changing, touching bodies. It encourages such communal acts as sharing a blanket and eating from the same jar of peanut butter. It is not surprising that they come out of it--a few days of it, anyway--feeling that they have had something akin to a religious experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and ...wars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can only... be known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat ... the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but t...he deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the f...act that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water when ...we need to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you... there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »