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“I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”
“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
“We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...."These words, wrung from the very depths o...”
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“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
“Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.”
“She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refrained from copying it. This was not to say that, for once that she had consented to spend a few m...”
“There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.”
“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.”
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, pla...”
“It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.”
“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronz...”
“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
“While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
“You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender - and so on - these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are give...”
“Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where ones roots are, where one comes from. It requires knowing, naming, and being...”
“An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United State...”
“There is a difference between having your own movement and cutting yourself off politically from all other movements. This last form of feminist isolationism is attractive in its simplicity. It app...”
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neith...”
“What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out?...”
