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Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Scott on November 20, 2008, 02:37:40 pm ---"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side."
~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
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Thanks Scott! I love this one!
I'll post some more quotations when I get home from work. :)
Brown Eyes:
OK, so I'm back to post while I'm still at work. ::) But, this one is a really interesting one having to do with art... so it's at least somewhat relevant to work.
"I ask your forgiveness, I am a mountain tiger."
<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/midsize/5876411-3aa.jpg" border="0" />
Ginevra de' Benci, c. 1474/1478 by Leonardo da Vinci
This painting was made at the time of Ginevra's marriage when she was only 16. The most fascinating thing about her is that she's a rare example of a known female poet from the Renaissance era. The quotation above is the only surviving line of her poetry known. But, she is much discussed by historians and in records left by her peers. It is believed that Leonardo became friends with her (probably following this commissioned portrait)... reflecting a pattern of his, which was to befriend particularly interesting, intellectual women of his day.
Brown Eyes:
They created it.
Now let's take it over.
~ Patti Smith
Brown Eyes:
"Afraid, she thinks. He is so afraid that she is at the beginning of what he is at the end of, that her success will ultimately mean his failure. 'Am I not the future, Robert?' she says, 'Isn't that what you were saying?'"
~Helen Humphreys (author)
Brown Eyes:
"I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."
-Courtney Love
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