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- My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
- Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
- She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
- Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
- I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
- Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
- Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
- Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
- What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Against Interpretation, 1966
- Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
- Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
- I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
- Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
- Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
- When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
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