Women are only children of a larger growth.... A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, ...as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.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 »
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for... larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic un...conscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherei...n these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate, so that being thrown into the balance it may prevent either scale from preponderating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, the...re is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, i...t is impossible to be warned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obese is ... in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. H...e no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next would come the muskrats, then the mongeese, and then, in sly succession, the larger, more vivid animals. When one is experime...nting with a new drink the fewer livestock there are around the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »