I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with noth...ing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great desire of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Eli...zabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right i...s laid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that any woman who sets goals for herself and takes her own life seriously and moves to achieve the goals that she wants a...s a person in her own right is a feminist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your toddler is no longer a baby feeling himself as part of you, using you as his controller, facilitator, his mirror for himself ...and the world. But he is not yet a child either; ready to see you as a person in your own right and to take responsibility for himself and his own actions in relation to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moon is door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset.... It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, not ...an individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those banners come to bribe or threaten Or whisper that a man's a fool... Who when his own right king's forgotten Cares what king sets up his rule. If he died long ago Why do you dread us so?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason I do not spend my days in despair and my nights in hopeless weeping simply is that I am in love with my own ruin. I the...refore deserve no sympathy, and probably shan't get it: my own profound self-compassion is enough. I am so abominably self-conscious that no smallest detail in this tragedy eludes me. Day after day I sit in the theatre of my own life and watch the drama of my own history proceeding to its close. Pray God the curtain falls at the right moment lest the play drag on into some long and tedious anticlimax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one to blame!... That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated.... How wonderful to have someone to bla...me! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »