I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Cou...rage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am --and this ought to be made very clear--I am a very serious woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is coupled to foul thraldom. But if he had assayed it,... Then all perquer he should it wit; And should think freedom more to prize Than all the gold in world that is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I kee...p mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we d...o want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age ...of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed gi...ve me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hapless Nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first and then a claw,... With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd in vain to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise? What Cat's averse to fish?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they striv...e; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment ... [ellipsis in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »