We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.