Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

It is very easy to love alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is...

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is...

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference...

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference...

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that...

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that...

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that...

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that...

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still...

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.