Claude Monet's Quote - Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it wer

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a womans natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. – Ann Oakley

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fitness

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. – William Ellery Channing

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Enemy, Enemies

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. – Author and exact wording unknown, I’ve been told this was quoted by Paul H

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Civilization

But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided.
A continent for better or worse divided.
The next day he sailed for England, where he quickly forgot
The case as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,
Afraid, as he told his Club, that he might get shot. – W. H. Auden

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Borders