Bernart de Ventadorn troubador
Can vei la lauzeta mover, line 33; translation by Frederick Goldin, from Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (1983) p. 440.
Source: Women in Love
Bernart de Ventadorn troubador
Can vei la lauzeta mover, line 33; translation by Frederick Goldin, from Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (1983) p. 440.
John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot
Source: The Marriage Plot
“She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.”
Mohsin Hamid book The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854–1939) American journalist and anarchist
Libertys Declaration of Purpose (1881)
Context: LIBERTY enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her. She hears no voice that always champions her; she knows no pen that always writes in her defence; she sees no hand that is always lifted to avenge her wrongs or vindicate her rights. Many claim to speak in her name, but few really understand her. Still fewer have the courage and the opportunity to consistently fight for her. Her battle, then, is her own, to wage and win. She — accepts it fearlessly and with a determined spirit.
Her foe, Authority, takes many shapes, but, broadly speaking, her enemies divide themselves into three classes: first, those who abhor her both as a means and as an end of progress, opposing her openly, avowedly, sincerely, consistently, universally; second, those who profess to believe in her as a means of progress, but who accept her only so far as they think she will subserve their own selfish interests, denying her and her blessings to the rest of the world; third, those who distrust her as a means of progress, believing in her only as an end to be obtained by first trampling upon, violating, and outraging her. These three phases of opposition to Liberty are met in almost every sphere of thought and human activity.
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
She's Always a Woman.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)