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“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”
“For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.”
“If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.”
“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.”
“There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are very serious dangers: the species may be heading toward extinction. I can't see how anybody can fai...”
“The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.”
“There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, after some rumination, "namely, that lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and wo...”
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one mans a blacksmith, and ones a whitesmith, and ones a goldsmith, and ones a coppersmith. Diwisions am...”
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
“Everyone had gone to school with someones brother or known each other up at Cambridge. These were serious young leftist intellectuals, many of them communists devoted to the idea of a classless soc...”
“House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.”
“Everyone had gone to school with someone’s brother or known each other up at Cambridge. These were serious young leftist intellectuals, many of them communists devoted to the idea of a classless so...”
