When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, lif...e consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal... lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function... of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And you're too fired up to go to sleep, you sit at the kitchen table. It's really late, it's really quiet, you're tired. Don't wan...na go to bed, though. Going to bed means this was the day. This Feb. 12, this Aug. 3, this Nov. 20 is over and you're tired and you made some money but it didn't happen, nothing happened. You got through it and a whole day of your life is over. And all it is--is time to go to bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that... there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Half-opening her lips to the frost's morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a swift-fleeting day of September! Ho...w audacious it is to advance in stately manner before the blue-tit fluttering in the shrubs that have long lost their leaves, like a queen with the spring's greeting on her lips; to bloom with steadfast hope that, parted from the cold flower-bed, she may be the last to cling, intoxicated, to a young hostess's breast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Left Washington, September 6, on a tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia.... Absent nineteen days. Receive...d every where heartily. The country is again one and united! I am very happy to be able to feel that the course taken has turned out so well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »