Selma James quotes
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“We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.”
-- Selma JamesSource : Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr
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“Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.”
-- Selma JamesSource : Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr
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“It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.”
-- Selma JamesSource : Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr
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“Having the children you want, not having the children you don't want but in order to do that you have to have the right to abortion and the right to pay equity, those two give you choice. One or the other does not.”
-- Selma JamesSource : Source: www.wsm.ie
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“The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.”
-- Selma James
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“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.”
Source : "The Weapon Shop". "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" Magazine, December 1942.
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“Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.”
Source : "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.
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“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”
Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation
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“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”
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“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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