Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
A well-behaved woman seldom makes history
So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.
An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.
History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.
Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.
Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
I'm as pure as the driven slush.