"Women began their inner emancipation by their access……" — George Steiner
"Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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More Access Quotes
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home,…
— Rod Blagojevich
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
— David Bowie
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We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be…
— Richard Branson
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
— Laura Bush
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Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams,…
— Nicolas Cage
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I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this…
— Nicolas Cage
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
— Richard Carmona
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
— Graydon Carter
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims…
— Anna Maria Chavez
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
— Deepak Chopra
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