There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third. But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.
|
Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.
|
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
|
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
|
The existence of organized cruelty - that is, cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means of a higher goal - is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
|
If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.
|
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
|
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
|
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
|
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there.
|
It is difficult to entertain a warm feeling for a 'medical man' who straps dogs to a table, cuts their vocal cords, and spends an interesting day or week slowly vivisecting or dismembering them.
|
No woman of our time has gone further with less mental equipment.
|
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
|
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
|
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
|
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
|
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
|
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
|
No good deed goes unpunished.
|
Continual improvement is an unending journey.
|
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
|
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
|
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
|
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
|
Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
|
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
|
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
|
It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.
|
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
|
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
|