Millicent Fawcett Quotes

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Millicent Fawcett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 11, 1847 - August 5, 1929

Topics

EducationWomenPresentPolitical

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

Melissa Bank

CreativeI AmFunMindMeDetails

If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.

Matthew Daddario

DayMeDoingFarmActingLiving

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Anna Deavere Smith

TeacherChildPeopleLovedFriends

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

Jeffery Deaver

BookEightAboutMonthsSpend

Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.

Jeff Bridges

GoodPeopleMental IllnessGunsSure

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

An Wang

TechnologyFindNeedSameTheme

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

Steven Hatfill

WorkKnowledgeWomanKnowNeverShe

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

Tori Amos

FindingIndustrySomethingYounger

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Tom Stoppard

MyselfLookingTryingHopelessWhy

I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.

Rob Zombie

WorldWantWayBedroomAlwaysSee

If you're a white person in the wrong neighborhood, you're an underdog.

Robin Thede

UnderdogYouWhiteWrongPerson

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Milan Kundera

WorkUnknownHumanReasonExistence

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