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- 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
- 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
- The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
- We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
- Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
- It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
- Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
- There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), The Bell Jar, 1963
- It is only the first step that is difficult.
- Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
- Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
- The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
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