The hour when you say, "What does my virtue matter? It has not yet made me rage. How tired I am of my good and my evil! All that i...s poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth--look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and the...n tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[When asked: "Will not woman suffrage make the black woman the political equal of the white woman and does not political equality ...mean social equality?":] If it does then men by keeping both white and black women disfranchised have already established social equality!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stand here tonight to say that we have never known defeat; we have never been vanquished. We have not always reached the goal to...ward which we have striven, but in the hour of our greatest disappointment we could always point to our battlefield and say: "There we fought our good fight, there we defended the principles for which our ancestors and yours laid down their lives; there is our battlefield for justice, equality and freedom. Where is yours?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal con...ditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They all came, some wore sentiments Emblazoned on T-shirts, proclaiming the lateness... Of the hour, and indeed the sun slanted its rays Through branches of Norfolk Island pine as though Politely clearing its throat....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province of... woman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than me...mory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »