Regarding Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Woman's Tribune http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/studies.html (22 February 1890)
“I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.”
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“I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.”
Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
Voces (1943)
Original in Romanian:
Am șlefuit materia pentru a afla linia continuă. Și când am constatat că n‑o pot afla, m‑am oprit; parcă cineva nevăzut mi‑a dat peste mâini.
Jurnal American - 21 Septembrie, altă zi la New York, Centrul Cultural Pitești, 2008-11-01, Vavila Popovici http://www.centrul-cultural-pitesti.ro/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=406,</ref>
“All my life I was very deprived, I ain't had a woman in years, and my palms are too hairy to hide”
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"My Name Is" (Track 2).
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Source: 21st Century, Robert Rauschenberg, Works, Writings and Interviews, 2006, p. 37