We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while ...they are being overloaded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women, because of their colonial relationship to men, have to fight for their own independence. This fight for our own independenc...e will lead to the growth and development of the revolutionary movement in this country. Only the independent woman can be truly effective in the larger revolutionary struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its ow...n healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness--hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughte...r's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing wi...th power.... Women do not need to diminish other women ... [they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing adv...ertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make o...f heaven an effective reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injus...tice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for- the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »