Famous quotes containing the words anthony, eden, world and/or war:
“No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a mans subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a womans subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201907)
“What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?”
—Countee Cullen (19031946)
“... the movie womans world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but its all the same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.”
—Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936)
“It is a war against the pines, the only real Aroostook or Penobscot war.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)