Angela could not be the bomber, not that sweet, pretty thing. Thing? Is that how she regarded that young woman, as a thing? And what had she ever said to her except "I hear you're getting married, Angela" or "How pretty you look, Angela." Had anyone asked her about her ideas, her hopes, her plans? If I had been treated like that I'd have used dynamite, not fireworks; no, I would have just walked out and kept right on going. But Angela was different. Ellen Raskin
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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William Faulkner
With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there –Â not always, but more often than not. With girls, 'Why her?' came up so quickly.
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Helen Oyeyemi
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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John Irving
Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It’s a fact of nature that no one can change. I’m sorry, but maybe you can play...
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Francine Pascal
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
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Andrea Dworkin
More Quotes By Ellen Raskin
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare, " Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.
Sandy fidgeted with his pen. “There’s something I didn’t write down. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he’s a bookie.” No, he should not have told her. “A small-time operator, I’m sure, Mr. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>McSouthers,...
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.
