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Once a writer has published a book, it belongs to its readers.

— Alix Kates Shulman Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2016)

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Advocates, no matter how old, face forward and upward toward the light; funerals can only momentarily divert them.

A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing (2012)

Each generation must define the problems anew, from their own observations and experience.

Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2016)

As a feminist, I believe that individuals on their own cannot change the culture; individual solutions don’t have traction. It takes a mass movement to really change things.

Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2016)

each generation can do no more than add its bit to the endless river of consciousness and change, and that's about as good as it gets.

A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing (2012)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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