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  1. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
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  2. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance {...}; as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as points out {in his }, she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.
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  4. John le Carré _ Call for the Dead

    She had the experience to suffer with discretion.
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  5. Charlotte Brontë _ Shirley

    No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling."And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?
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  6. Charlotte Brontë _ Shirley

    I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last.
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  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
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  8. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    There's a dignity in consequences.
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  9. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. It will be hard, James, but you come from sturdy, peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity.
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  10. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them.
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  11. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
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  12. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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