Source: Affinity
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) Swiss author
Original: (fr) La voix de la conscience est si délicate, qu'il est facile d'étouffer; mais elle est si pure, qu'il est impossible de la méconnaître.
Source: De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813), Pt. 3, ch. 13
“Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?”
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French novelist and philosopher
Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1787)
“Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.”
Lauren Willig (1977) American author
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
“When I tell him that Im falling in love
Why does he say
"Hush, hush, keep it down now.
Voices carry"?”
Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)
"Voices Carry"
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)
Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. II : The Fellow-Craft, p. 44
Context: Refined society requires greater minuteness of regulation; and the steps of all advancing States are more and more to be picked among the old rubbish and the new materials. The difficulty lies in discovering the right path through the chaos of confusion. The adjustment of mutual rights and wrongs is also more difficult in democracies. We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.
Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959) Zimbabwean author and filmmaker
On the difficulties of being a creative woman in “An Interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga: An excerpt” https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-tsitsi-dangarembga/ in Brick Magazine (December 2012)
“If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.”
Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
