"The more I was treated as a woman,……" — Jan Morris
"The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself."
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Jan Morris
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20 Quotes by Jan Morris
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides…
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in…
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There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is…
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I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether…
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I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
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I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think…
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I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where…
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Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity…
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It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth…
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The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment…
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There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the…
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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
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More Adapted Quotes
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing…
— Roderick Murchison
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The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The…
— Elias Canetti
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought…
— John B. S. Haldane
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses!…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions…
— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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