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When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. read more
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand read more
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are read more
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be read more
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it read more
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?