"And the more pity that great folk..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear”

“A woman's thought runs before her actions.”

“I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.”

“Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.”

“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?”

“In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.”

“I am privileged to have played basketball.”

“I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.”

“Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'”