The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its ci...tizens by narrow statutes. The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression of that will by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Victoria: Would you believe me if I told you we were in love? King: No.... Victoria: Because homosexuality is unnatural and a sin? King: According to who? Victoria: Oh, pious clergymen and terrified heterosexuals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed on ...printed fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.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 »
In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollar...s a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a borealic iceberg came Victoria; she Knew Prince Albert's tall memorial took the colours of the floreal... And the borealic iceberg;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our king went forth to Normandy, With grace and might of chivalry,... The God for him wrought marvellously, Wherefore England may call and cry Deo gratias, Deo gratias Anglia Redde pro victoria.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes my wife complains that she's overwhelmed with work and just can't take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. ...I'll offer to do it for her, and then she'll say, "No, I'll do it." We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role--it's not given up easily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »