WIST Quotations

Antrim, Minna -- Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1902)

Dave — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:59:09 +0000

When the final records shall be made clear, I think we shall be greatly amazed to see how alike in their frailties were men and women.

Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1902)
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Peters, Ellis -- Cadfael Chronicles No. 2, A Morbid Taste for Bones, ch. 9 [Cadfael] (1977)

Dave — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:08:57 +0000

Both men and women partake of the same human nature, Huw. We both bleed when we’re wounded. That’s a poor, silly woman, true, but we can show plenty of poor, silly men. There are women as strong as any of us, and as able.

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
Cadfael Chronicles No. 2, A Morbid Taste for Bones, ch. 9 [Cadfael] (1977)
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La Follette, Suzanne -- Concerning Women (1926)

Dave — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:36:27 +0000

Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
Concerning Women (1926)
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