Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom ...have I enriched to other's harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing ...what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exis...t. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of th...e earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was born a mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The cooper told my father, "Fanny made that barrel, and has d...one it quicker and better than any boy I have had after six months' training." My father looked at it and said, "What a pity that you were not born a boy so that you could be good for something. Run into the house, child, and go to knitting."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom.... You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fine Madam Would-Be, wherefore should you fear, That love to make so well, a child to bear?... The world reputes you barren; but I know Your 'pothecary, and his drug says no. Is it the pain affrights? That's soon forgot, Or your complexion's loss? You have a pot That can restore that. Will it hurt your feature? To make amends, you're thought a wholesome creature. What should the cause be? Oh, you live at court, And there's both loss of time and loss of sport In a great belly. Write, then, on thy womb, Of the not born, yet buried, here's the tomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »