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“Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?”

Men Way Long Study Female Fellows Privilege Long Way

Author:Miles Franklin

“In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.”

Law Winning Practice Theory Birth Equal Privilege Equality Inequality Overwhelming Lottery

Book:Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

Source: Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.”

Firsts Has Beens Dream America Values House Interest White Class Streets Middle Privilege Administration Middle Class White House Abandoned Denied Mainstream Ignored Scorned Main Street

Author:John F. Kerry

“I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.”

Knows Trying I Can Moments Body America Lying Force Nations Challenges Effort Careers Greatness Promise Harder Starting Privilege Deeper Your Body Shy Endeavor Dig Deep Troubled Times

Author:Barack Obama

“The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.”

Way Feels Firsts Hands Walks Power Doors Advantage Privilege Granted Gestures Empowered Disadvantages Framed Arbiter Upper Hand Magnanimous

Book:That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

Source: That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.”

Ifs Looks Doe Important Enough Feelings Eye Chance Brain Events Terrible Hundred Ears Extraordinary Privilege Woods Journalism Encounters Anguish Worms Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.”

Men Opportunity Natural Work Economic Privilege Labour Entitled Unemployment Economic Systems

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.”

Rights Havens Privilege

Author:Clemence Dane

“In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.”

Thinking Persons Ideas Seems Social Loss Grief Economic Losing Threat Privilege Following Conviction Lovely Logical Fairness Incapable Sequence Premises Alarms Lucidity

Author:Storm Jameson

“We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.”

Talking Dying Sick Privilege Sick And Dying

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.”

School Funny Law Pleasure Privilege Law School Gum Yale Convocation

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.”

People Should Home House Privilege Valuable Unreasonable Invisibility Sociability

Book:The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents

Source: The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents

“The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many of its institutions have come to be accepted as a matter of course and have become a source of pride to "conservative" parties who created them. Here the believer in freedom cannot but conflict with the conservative and take an essentially radical position, directed against popular prejudices, entrenched positions, and firmly established privileges. Follies and abuses are no better for having long been established principles of folly.”

“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.”

Ideas Music Opinion Highest Privilege Substance Precise

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Written Land Proud Privilege Granted Forefathers

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.”

“Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.”

Years Fighting Asks Kindness Greater Youth Battle Privilege Adolescence Mistaken Shields

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.”

Ifs Long Choices Fashion Dear Privilege Lace

Author:Dorothea Dix

“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.”

Government Privilege Burden Admitting

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.”

Play Privilege Honour Thrill Nhl

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.”

Mind Humans Philosophy Moments Body Memories Space Emotion Alive Aspect Medicine Privilege Senses Acknowledge Human Body Good Memories Soma

Book:Art Psalms

Source: Art Psalms

“Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.”

Children Form Rooms Existence Bed Clothes Privilege Various Surrender Boundaries Invention Comic Free Will Hospitals Broads Daylight Gowns Corridors

Author:Dorothy West

“Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.”

Privilege Ageing Predicaments

Author:Martin Firrell

“The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.”

Five Security Members Privilege Permanent Principal Composition Unfair Defects Council Insufficient Security Council

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.”

“Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.”

War Prejudice Privilege Discrimination Exclusion Unlearn

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.”

Needs States Spirit Privilege Discrimination Compromise Heels Negotiation Predator Unlearn Impasse

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?”

Wells Said Opportunity Responsibility Circumstances Equal Highest Tests Privilege Success In Life Fleeing Conjunctions

Author:Lilian Whiting

“True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.”

Matter Advantage Privilege Socialism

Book:The World Beautiful: Second series

Source: The World Beautiful: Second series

“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.”

People Ifs Giving Country Life Is Certain White Virtue Doors Subjects Giving Up Racism Pressure Privilege Myth Elusive White Privilege Fugitive Meritocracy Free Country

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“I think, as Ive gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.”

Thinking Huge Privilege

Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.”

Care Fairs Privilege Health Care

Author:John Lewis

“It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.”

Universe Stars Conscious Shining Privilege

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.”

Ifs Gratitude Privilege Neglect

Book:Anne

Source: Anne

“Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.”

Art Body Responsibility Males Privilege Productions Scales Artistic Intimate Conception Selective Output Art History Prodigious

Book:Women, Art, and Society

Source: Women, Art, and Society

“The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.”

Law Purpose Interest Duty Privilege National Interests Above The Law

Book:The House of Commons at Work

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.”

“I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.”

People Attention Silence Study Strive Privilege Actresses Atmosphere Isolation Contradiction Inattention

Author:Masiela Lusha

“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”

Humans Dies Fall Human Beings Imagine Youth Misery Privilege Painful Enjoyment Perpetual Solitary Decay Sincerely Deliverance Insufferable

Author:James Sharp

“Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.”

Mind Today Nature Pleasure Silence Steps Meditation Becoming Majors Privilege Luxury Enjoyment Communion Idleness Priceless Slowness Studious Communion With Nature

Author:Pascal Bruckner

“The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.”

Sometimes Pain Lying Pleasure Fields Expression Advantage Mirrors Privilege

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.”

People Humans Different Young Wealth Human Beings Walks Concepts India Privilege Theme Layers Woven Walks Of Life Compact Different Walks Of Life

Book:From fear set free

Source: From fear set free

“It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.”

Prayer Duty Regard Privilege Believer Dullness

Author:Adolph Saphir

“It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion--the second, above it.”

“In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.”

Has Beens Two Law Felt Christ Church Views Grace Special Type Benefits Married Privilege Being Married

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.”

Thinking Should Ideas Hard Belief Opinion Beats Prejudice Add Privilege Holes Bats Cricket Arses Great Wisdom

Author:Tim Minchin

“It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.”

“We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.”

Facts Reality Fiction Feminism Special Subjects Tired Privilege Queens Pretense

Author:Lillie Devereux Blake

“I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.”

Two Privilege Grandparent

Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

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