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“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep t...”
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
“Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.”
“There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.”
“This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.”
“As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but...”
“In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.”
“We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a fe...”
“People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.”
“I am he who cometh out of the depths. My lords, you are great and rich. There lies your danger. You profit by the night; but beware! The dawn is all-powerful. You cannot prevail over it. It is comi...”
“Its not right that some people have so much and others have so little.”
“One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation.”
“The low suffer most the blow of the law”
“Pity womankind, but never a woman.”
“John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!"That silenced him for a few moments.Then he saidvery quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling...”
“If human equality is to be for ever averted if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.”
“Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to thin...”
“We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's on...”
