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“absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.”

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Gertrude Himmelfarb is an esteemed historian known for her profound insights into modern history and culture. Her research focuses on 19th-century Britain and the United States, particularly on social, political, and moral issues. more

“we found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.”

Doe Important Found Ability Confidence News Evidence Strive Competence

Book:The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know

Source: The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know

“I am in love with Larry David.”

Larry

Author:Kathy Griffin

“self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.”

Self Faces Ability Confidence Possession Contradiction

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.”

Depends Expectations Surprise Toes

Book:Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

Source: Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

“for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.”

Self Political Social Feminism Movement Tools Possession Obligation Reform Regulation Social Reform Self Regulation Political Movements

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

World Writing Persons Self Humanity Rooms Company Virtue Written Loneliness Solitude Conversation Empty Letters Assuming Prime Telephones My Thoughts Imaginative Immediacy Empty Rooms

Author:Vivian Gornick

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