Quotes About Diversity

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only?

So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing

For," the outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

en tant que femme je n ai pas de pays. En tant que femme je ne désire aucun pays. Mon pays a moi, femme, c est le monde entier.

Noi juc?m roluri diferite; dar suntem aceea?i.

Che fantasmagoria è mai il nostro spirito, luogo di convegno di tante cose dissimili! Talvolta deploriamo la nostra nascita, le nostre ricchezze, e aspiriamo a un'esaltazione ascetica; subito dopo, ci lasciamo intenerire dal profumo di qualche vecchio viottolo di giardino, e versiamo lacrime al canto dei tordi.

The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.

I had come at last, in the course of this rambling, to the shelves which hold books by the living; by women and by men; for there are almost as many books written by women now as by men. Or if that is not yet quite true, if the male is still the voluble sex, it is certainly true that women no longer write novels solely. There are Jane Harrison's books on Greek archaeology; Vernon Lee's books on aesthetics; Gertrude Bell's books on Persia.

We are the words; we are the music...

So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.

any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.

my country is the world

The weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything substantial from him successfully. The ape is too distant to be sedulous. Perhaps

The only prescription for me is to have a thousand interests.

The weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything substantial from him successfully. The ape is too distant to be sedulous.

No debería la educación buscar y fortalecer más bien las diferencias que no los puntos de semejanza? Porque ya nos parecemos demasiado, y si un explorador volviera con la noticia de otros sexos atisbando por entre las ramas de otros árboles bajo otros cielos, nada podría ser más útil a la Humanidad

It is a profound truth that in 'every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place', as Woolf puts it, but for the writer that change is also a profound source of energy.

Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer!

Nada, porém, pode ser mais arrogante, embora mais comum, do que assumir que de Deuses só existe um, e de religiões nenhuma além da de quem fala.

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

Até os homens e as mulheres parecem ter encolhido, tornaram-se numerosos e diminutos ao invés de únicos e substanciais.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

that is his head, containing a brain of a different brand than that of the synthetic jellies preserved in the skulls around him