Arcangela Tarabotti quotes
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“Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.”
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“When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.”
-- Arcangela Tarabotti
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain”
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“Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.”
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Source : Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe
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“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”
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“The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.”
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“We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.”
Source : "The Crisis in a Nutshell: Quotes of the Week" by Aswini Periyasamy, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2013.
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