Futilely Def Quotes & Sayings

Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have won only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have taken nothing; they have received.5 It is that they lack the concrete means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition. They have no past, no history, no religion of their own; and unlike the proletariat, they have no solidarity of labor or interests; they even lack their own space that makes communities of American blacks, the Jews in ghettos, or the workers in Saint-Denis or Renault factories. They live dispersed among men, tied by homes, work, economic interests, and social conditions to certain men - fathers or husbands - more closely than to other women. As bourgeois women, they are in solidarity with bourgeois men and not with women proletarians; as white women, they are in solidarity with white men and not with black women. — Simone De Beauvoir

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away. — Thomas Jefferson

Maybe illusion and artifice - lies, even - are a necessary part of romance. — Jody Gehrman

I dream about running all the time. — Mark Zupan

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong! — Leonard Ravenhill