The promoters of emancipation were not bent on promoting a revolution so much as they were intent on snuffing one out — a backward-looking, aristocratic revolution — in order to put the South back on the track it should have been on from the beginning of the republic.
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
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Jane Austen
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know...
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Jeanette Winterson
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
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Michel Legrand
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
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Unknown
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia,...
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Gary L. Francione
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The promoters of emancipation were not bent on promoting a revolution so much as they were intent on snuffing one out — a backward-looking, aristocratic revolution — in order to put the South back on the track it should have been on from the beginning...
