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“There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.”

Firsts Kind May Said Two Age Speak Wish Genius Eternal Highest Speaks Out

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review

“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.”

Writing Firsts Children Age Mother Father Alive Poet Eight Mother And Father Pissed Off Odes Dead Mother

Author:Judith Viorst

“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Firsts May Mean Problem Age Past Black Change Learning Century Filled Honestly Obedience Bigotry Inferiors Terrified Submission Preconceptions Unlearn

Author:Gloria Steinem

“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”

Firsts Age Next Generations Middle Shapes Tests Stress Guilt Species Burden Scales Grades Forty Fitness Imperatives Middle Ages My Generation Godliness

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.”

People Firsts Has Beens Seems Age Process Perfect Talking Too Much Growing Drink Aging Strikes Instance Mechanism Listeners Signals Old People Restless Aging Process Talking Too Much

Author:Barbara Walters

“My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.”

Writing Firsts Bigs Age Mother Given Five Sensible Suggestions My Thoughts Notebook Whining Tablets Stop Whining

Book:We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.”

Firsts Children Age Pain Evil Greater Weak Breaths Old Age Afraid Of Death

Author:Charles Churchill

“There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.”

Firsts Age Written Aging Rate Elderly Humorists

Author:Richard Armour

“First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.”

Men Firsts Believe May Body Age Lasts Form Passion Development Perfection Thirds Exalted Purification Enlargement

Author:B. H. Roberts

“What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.”

Firsts Age Heard Feminism Changed Men And Women First Time Albums Relate

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.”

Ifs Way Firsts Soul Home Body Age Given Path Horse Old Age Pace Wiser Good Horse

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.”

Years Firsts Age Mother First Time Twenties Actresses Hunters Autographs

Book:Ingrid Bergman: My Story

Source: Ingrid Bergman: My Story

“... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.”

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.”

Way Firsts Looks Age Journey Losing Concern Old Age Traveled Remorse

Book:The Master's Violin

Source: The Master's Violin

“The vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages would make it impossible for reincarnating members of the Order to go deeply enough into their other memories, without the secret techniques first.”

Firsts Enough Age Order Memories Secret Impossible Members Ancient Technique Toxicity Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

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