We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the ...sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celeb...rated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever moreLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit... or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not ... the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men who... were disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off fr...om others lands, but a continent that joins to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which... Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I read The Sound and the Fury or Middlemarch, I'm filled with the aromas of either book, with past readings and relationships t...o the characters, with a whole continent of language and scenes, but the books don't frighten me. I can enter into their dream songs, and leave at my own will. But if I'm watching Casablanca on the wall, I'll let my eye slip past the phony details, the studio-bound streets, the laughable sense of a fabricated city, and drift into that dream of Humphrey Bogart and Rick's Cafe Americain, which exists outside any laws of physics, like the eternal dream of Hollywood itself, a little dopey, but with a power we can't resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adria...tic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really... knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck--and, of course, courage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is tro...ubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »