The women of this century are neither idle nor indifferent. They are working with might and main to mitigate the evils which stare... them in the face on every side, but much of their work is without knowledge. It is aimed at the effects, not the cause; it is plucking the spoiled fruit; it is lopping off the poisonous branches of the deadly upas tree, which but makes the root more vigorous in sending out new shoots in every direction. A right understanding of physiological law teaches us that the cause must be removed; the tree must be girdled; the tap-root must be severed. The tap-root of our social upas lies deep down at the very foundations of society. It is woman's dependence. It is woman's subjection. Hence, the first and only efficient work must be to emancipate woman from her enslavement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate between ...them. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looki...ng abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature looking into nature with such easy sympathy as the blue-eyed grass in the meadow looks in the face of the sky. From some such recess I would put forth sublime thoughts daily, as the plant puts forth leaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, so that all his forces may be brought to th...e encounter. Apparently writing without a particular design or responsibility, setting down his soliloquies from time to time, taking advantage of all his humors, when at length the hour comes to declare himself, he puts down in plain English, without quotation marks, what he, Thomas Carlyle, is ready to defend in the face of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among th...e merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to say ... and I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest an...d most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new disease? I know not, new or old, But it may well be called poor mortals' plague:... For, like a pestilence, it doth infect The houses of the brain ... Till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, Be free from the black poison of suspect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, th...is is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to liv...e through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »