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“Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.”

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Meg Greenfield was an American writer known for her profound insights into political and social issues. Her writing career spanned journalism, commentary, and literary creation, and her works have won numerous important awards. more

“Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.”

Knows Responsibility Know How Too Much Birth Demand Latter Conception Lacking Birth Control

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.”

Long Important Play Business Development Determination Consideration Harmonious Mercenary

Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman

“Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.”

Future Harmony Chaos

Author:Emma Goldman

“The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.”

Mind Parent Teacher Easier Average Conformity Parents And Teachers Average Minds

Book:Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

Quote by Meg Greenfield

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