'Tis very much like light, a thing that everybody knows, and yet none can tell what to make of it: 'Tis not money, fortune, joyntu...re, raving, stabbing, hanging, romancing, flouncing, swearing, ramping, desiring, fighting, dying, though all those have been, are, and still will be mistaken and miscalled for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at al...l, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand ...that they make of love.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 »
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism...; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism someth...ing as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing.... The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, Wh...at is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »