Great Throughts Treasury

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Ellen Goodman

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Boys | Order | Study | Thought | Learn | Thought |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

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Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Would to God each had his own and were at peace.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, perhaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all-female world.

Earth | Man | Power | Religion | System | Will | Woman | Wonder | World | Old |

Emil M. Cioran

If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

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Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

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Emil M. Cioran

Man started out on the wrong foot. the misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

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Emil M. Cioran

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

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Dorothy Parker

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

Dreams | Heart | Think |

Emil M. Cioran

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

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Dorothy Parker

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.

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Emile Zola

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Display | Joy | Little | Lying | Style |

Emile Zola

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Lying | Serenity |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

If the stillness is Volcanic in the human face when upon a pain Titanic features keep their place- If at length the smoldering anguish will not overcome- and the palpitating Vinyard in the dust, be overthrown?

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Emile Zola

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Eternal | Giving | Love | Lying |

Emile Zola

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

Despair | Destroy | Effort | Good | Honor | Innocence | Life | Life | Man | Men | Office | Order | People | Public | Society | War | Society |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emile Gaboriau

You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.

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