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“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.”

People Needs Should Writing Believe Looks Play Character Would Be Able I Believe Social Challenges Lines Views Class Crosses Males Gender Point Of View Good Writers Social Class Chameleon

Author:Marisha Pessl

“In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.”

Facts Religion Individual Given Social Community Class Castes Social Class

Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.”

Ifs Hard Certain Social Class Rights Pride Property Privilege Debt Convinced Concrete Property Rights Social Class Specialty

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.”

Wells Beautiful Games Social Sports Class Streets Healthy Essentials Etc Positively Integrating Social Class

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.”

“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.”

Should Culture Social Ability Class Equal Achievement Expectations Aspiration Affected Motivated Prospects Social Class

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.”

Soul States Individual Nations Social Natural Class Blood Related Collectives Organs Nationality Social Class Cohesion

Author:A. C. Cuza

“All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.”

Made Social Money Class Shifting Social Class

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.”

Hands Law Social Class Tools Abstract Social Class

Author:Josephine Herbst

“The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.”

Important Shows Culture Social Differences Class Groups Influence Minors Hobbies Affirmation Reproduction Social Class Culture And Education

Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.”

May Social Class Skills Female Definitions Social Class Proverbial

Author:Emily James Smith Putnam