What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel… — Louis Riel Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
