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“Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.”

Needs Humans Body Rights Streets Movement Human Rights Progressive Womens Rights Progressive Movement

Author:Martha Plimpton

“Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.”

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.”

Body Song Bits Dark Cities Streets Tears Holes Betray Pregnant Ache

Book:Mid-American Chants

Source: Mid-American Chants

“All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.”

Body Running Streets Tears Wall Rain Skins Destroyed Hurricanes Posters Peeling

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”

People Ifs Body Lines Rooms Groups Influence Streets Produce Limits Impression Setting Settings Midst Portraits Living Room Totality

Author:Medardo Rosso

“It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.”

Source: To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

“When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.”

Persons Body Faces Turns Lost Sides Forever Streets Walking Shapes Committed Corners Disappear Senses Shoulders Instant Going Away Gestures Glimpse Away From You

Author:Joel Meyerowitz