The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These st...orms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from d...istinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; l...ike the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no s...tate of feeling that says "mine, mine," more fiercely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. When they need us, we are fiercely the...re. But we do not need them to need us--or to become us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attenti...on for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one ano...ther, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with his ...black wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature--opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal an...tagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued,... And cries reproachful: "Was it then my praise, And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »