To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind of... freedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the drea...mer, the house allows one to dream in peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, an...d the town must save that the State may spend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My tendency to nervousness in my younger days, in view of the fact of a number of near relatives on both my father's and mother's ...side of the house having become insane, gave some serious uneasiness. I made up my mind to overcome it.... In the cross-examination of witnesses before a crowded court-house ... I soon found I could control myself even in the worst of testing cases. Finally, in battle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In states of perplexity men will rub their chins with their hand, or tug at the lobes of their ears, or rub their foreheads or che...eks or back of the neck. Women have very different gestures in such states. They will either put a finger on their lower front teeth with the mouth slightly open or pose a finger under the chin. Other masculine gestures in states of perplexity are: rubbing one's nose, placing the flexed fingers over the mouth, rubbing the side of the neck, rubbing the infraorbital part of the face, rubbing the closed eyes, and picking the nose. These are all masculine gestures; so is rubbing the back of the hand or the front of the thigh, and pursing of the lips.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kids need to see that their parents may not always be of the same mind, that people who differ, even angrily, can continue in a lo...ving relationship,... that it's okay to argue with a loved one, and that one can do so without risking the love of the other person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Republicans] offer ... a detailed agenda for national renewal.... [On] reducing illegitimacy ... the state will use ... funds... for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely- discernible fiss...ure,... extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... women are supposed to be unfit to vote because they are hysterical and emotional and of course men would not like to have emot...ion enter into a political campaign. They want to cut out all emotion and so they would like to cut us out. I had heard so much about our emotionalism that I went to the last Democratic national convention, held at Baltimore, to observe the calm repose of the male politicians. I saw some men take a picture of one gentleman whom they wanted elected and it was so big they had to walk sidewise as they carried it forward; they were followed by hundreds of other men screaming and yelling, shouting and singing the "Houn' Dawg".... I saw men jump up on the seats and throw their hats in the air and shout: "What's the matter with Champ Clark?" Then, when those hats came down, other men would kick them back into the air, shouting at the top of their voices: "He's all right!!"... No hysteria about it--just patriotic loyalty, splendid manly devotion to principle. And so they went on and on until 5 o'clock in the morning--the whole night long. I saw men jump up on their seats and jump down again and run around in a ring. I saw two men run towards another man to hug him both at once and they split his coat up the middle of his back and sent him spinning around like a wheel. All this with the perfect poise of the legal male mind in politics! I have been to many women's conventions in my day but I never saw a woman leap up on a chair and take off her bonnet and toss it up in the air and shout: "What's the matter with" somebody. I never saw a woman knock another woman's bonnet off her head as she screamed, "She's all right!".... But we are willing to admit that we are emotional. I have actually seen women stand up and wave their handkerchiefs. I have even seen them take hold of hands and sing, "Blest be the tie that binds." Nobody doubts that women are excitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... represent...ations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »