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“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”
Sally Kempton“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”
Sally Kempton, Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience“The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.”
Murray Kempton“Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.”
Sally Kempton“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
Sally Kempton“To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.”
Murray Kempton“America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.”
Murray Kempton“To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.”
Murray Kempton“Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly”
Sally Kempton“By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.”
Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.”
Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties