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“Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.”

World Women Virtue Fine Pure Stones Precious Stones

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.”

Heart Women Hair Solitude Kissing Stones Lips Flames Gas Pale Lamps Daylight All Alone Flare Kissing Her Heart Of Stone

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.”

Women Stones Deeds Thrown Good Deeds Initials Ponds Ripple

Author:Jeanne Phillips

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

Ifs Happens Action Next Women Knowledge Morning Laughing Drink Bed Consequence Stones Dare Doomed Ruined Foresight

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.”

Needs Firsts Ideas Done Lying Women Justice Rights Demand Stones Injustice Corners Graves Womens Rights Mistress Cradle Wrong Ideas

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader