Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: life women history death personhood
My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: life women history personhood childbirth
We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?
Philippa GregoryThe sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.
Emil M. CioranStichwörter: history sadness despair wrong misery
...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort of effacement of oneself from history. The entire record of the human race has been falsified, it has been made up by bad governments to suit themselves, by kings and tyrants to make them look good. This idea of history as made by great men is quite nonsensical, when you look at it from the point of view of the people. The real heroes are those who have resisted tyrants, and it is in the nature of tyranny not only to kill those who oppose it but to wipe their names out of the record, to obliterate them, so that resistance seems impossible.
Hilary MantelStichwörter: history french-revolution robespierre
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin—the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size—or even pint-size—Benjamin Franklins of today?
Isidor Isaac RabiStichwörter: history american ideal benjamin-franklin founding-father emulation
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Charles DarwinStichwörter: science biology history light psychology evolution research charles-darwin darwin natural-selection capacity important foundation mental-power origin human-evolution gradation origin-of-man
One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
Andrew RobertsStichwörter: perspective history critical-thinking
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.
William Lloyd GarrisonStichwörter: inspirational love history race interracial-romance
This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory.
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