anthology

bookseller

bookstore

censorship

conversation

domestic work

feminism

feminist

H.G. Wells

hypocrisy

journalism

literature

man (human)

motherhood

music

oyster

pregnancy

self-expression

occupation / innovator as

journalist

nationality

British

essayist

literary critic

suffragette

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

innovator in the field of

essay

is, in part, a way of collecting information about the universe.

is the most agreeable servants of civilization.

is a practice as indefensible as infanticide.

is an illusion. There is nothing but intersecting monologues, that is all.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits.

is difficult to define, but people tend to call a woman a feminist whenever she expresses sentiments that differentiate her from a doormat.

is what a woman is often called whenever they express sentiments that differentiate them from a doormat or a prostitute.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

, because it stinks in the nostrils, is likely to be rated as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

is the ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Journalism-an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

is an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy its desire for physical immortality and triumph over its fear of death.

is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

is not worth eating. First, a good one cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and secondly, a good one cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. Rebecca West

is impossible --- Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

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