Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to... lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have to change how people view themselves in the world. I have to get people to believe they can in fact make a difference.... W...e view ourselves ... as people trained to develop people. Issues are only tools. Think about the guy who works in a factory. He's on the assembly line. He's a nobody. He doesn't do the kind of work that's ever gonna get him recognition. Take that same person and he's a key leader in the parish or in a union. Suddenly that same man, who from Monday to Friday stands on the assembly line at General Motors and is a nobody, is somebody over here. People look to him. He makes a difference and he knows it. He counts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hidden away amongst Aschenbach's writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their ex...istence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of yo...u that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a fat little man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul, his tastes lie towards safety, soft beds, no work, pots of beer and women with "voluptuous" figures. He it is who punctures your fine attitudes and urges you to look after Number One, to be unfaithful to your wife, to bilk your debts, and so on and so forth. Whether you allow yourself to be influenced by him is a different question. But it is simply a lie to say that he is not part of you, just as it is a lie to say that Don Quixote is not part of you either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I started out as a nurse I did so with the highest ideals.... But I found that steady work in my profession--like every woman...'s work in the world--depended upon the giving of myself.... Two-thirds of the physicians I met made a nurse's virtue the price of their influence in getting her steady work. Is it any wonder that I determined to become a member of this privileged sex, if possible?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade uni...on movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, yes, I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad... that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have it ...for her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »