Carolyn R. Dimmick quotes

“In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.”
-- Carolyn R. Dimmick

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“The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.”

“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”

“I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.”

“The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.”

“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

“The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”