I don't think men respect women ... [ellipsis in original] I don't think they really respect their opinions. I don't think they re...ally respect their ability to do a job. And, therefore, when it comes to the business of hiring somebody, they're always sort of hanging back and suspicious whether the woman would actually be able to do it. Meantime, these people that are doing this to you are people that you swamped when you were going through school. I don't mean that in a bitter way. I mean this is a fact of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and... it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief?... We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So this tangle of impossible resolutions and irresolutions: The desire to have fun, to make noise, and so to... Add to the already all-but-illegible scrub forest of graffiti on the shithouse wall. Someone is coming to get you: The mailman, or a butler enters with a letter on a tray Whose message is to change everything, but in the meantime ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some day I'll claim to you how all used up I am because of you but in the meantime the ride... Continues. Everyone is along for the ride, It seems. Besides, what else is there?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundre...ds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate,--and meantime it is only puss and her tail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poetic ...youth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the un...iversal beauty, to which every particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In time the scouring of wind and rain will wear down the ranges and plane off the region until it has the drab monotony of the old...er deserts. In the meantime--a two-million-year meantime--travelers may enjoy the cruel beauties of a desert in its youth,....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall never love England till she sues to us for help; and, in the meantime, the fewer triumphs she obtains, the better for all ...the parties. An Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character; he does not lose his dignity, but merely comes to a proper conceit of himself.... I seem to myself like a spy or a traitor, when I meet their eyes, and am conscious that I neither hope nor fear in sympathy with them, although (unless they detect me for an American by my aspect) they look at me in full confidence of sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »