Elizabeth Bisland quotes

“After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.”
-- Elizabeth Bisland

Source : Elizabeth Bisland (1906). “The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic”

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“When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.”

Source : Adam Thirlwell (2004). “Politics”, Random House

“The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.”

“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.”

Source : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview, collider.com. Ocotber 6, 2010.

“So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.”

“All that harms labor is treason to America.”

“The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.”

“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.”

“Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”

“And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.”

“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.”