Arcangela Tarabotti quotes

“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.”
-- Arcangela Tarabotti

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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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“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain”

“Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.”

“In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.”

Source : Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

“I was good and bad, but never wicked.”

“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”

“The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.”

“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.

“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”