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"My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily."
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"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."
"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."
"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."
"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."
"And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "both" shit. "Both" comes off as sloppy characterization, muddy filmmaking, lack of focus. ... But I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from."
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"I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please."
"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order."
"If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?"
"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation."
"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped."
"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
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