We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helpl...essly and forever, contains the other--male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid, ...and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But to ...emigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not h...urt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At last, on Monday the 16th of May, when I was sitting in Mr. Davies's back-parlour, after having drunk tea with him and Mrs. Davi...es, Johnson unexpectedly came into the shop; and Mr. Davies having perceived him through the glass-door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing towards us,--he announced his aweful approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, "Look, my Lord, it comes" ... Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from."M"From Scotland," cried Davies roguishly. "Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to sooth and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country.... [W]ith that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland," which I used in the sense of being of that country, and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, "That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears!' (They were all of them fond of quotations:... So they drank to his health, and they gave him three cheers, While he served out additional rations).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »