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Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

— Fannie Hurst Lummox (1923)

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A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.

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Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.

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If it means loathing war sufficiently to bear the unpleasant brunt of being branded a coward, I suppose I am a pacifist.

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Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

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