All Quotes
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.Robert Frost
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw