Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

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Topic

Single women Single life

Speaker

Edna Ferber

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ferber, Edna. Comment at a round table. Algonquin Round Table. c. 1929, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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How can you hesitate? Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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Topic
Going for it Taking risks

Author

Katherine Mansfield
Medium
Personal journal
Language
English
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. Journal entry. 10 Oct. 1922.

Current Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. Vol. 2, Lincoln University Press, 1997.

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Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Topic
Political agitation

Author

Edmund Burke
Source
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.