It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does natur...ally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us who sit upon this platform have many a time been clamored down, and told that we had no right to speak, and that we wer...e out of our place in public meetings; far be it from us, when women assemble, and a man has a thought in his soul, burning for utterance, to retaliate upon him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically seal...ed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"In great misfortunes," he told himself, "people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within ...one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in." Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;... And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that... if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So what if people say terrible things? Whatever they call me, I say, "Yes, and my name is Mary." I refuse to be afraid. And I do t...his out of an obligation not to the community but to myself. Nobody should have a say in who I am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Greeks would not have called the ocean atrugetos, or unfruitful, though it does not produce wheat, if they had viewed it by th...e light of modern science, for naturalists now assert that "the sea, and not the land, is the principal seat of life,"Mthough not of vegetable life.... The dry land itself came through and out of the water in its way to the heavens, for, "in going back through the geological ages, we come to an epoch when, according to all appearances, the dry land did not exist, and when the surface of our globe was entirely covered with water." We looked on the sea, then, once more, not as atrugetos, or unfruitful, but as it has been more truly called, the "laboratory of continents."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspect... they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »