Lib Quotes
'Twas the saying of [Georgias Leontinus apud Arist. Rhetor. lib. 3. cap. 18... which the Translator renders, Seria Risu, Risum Seriis discutere] an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
I love every "lib" movement there is, because after the "lib" the things that were always a mystique become understandable and boring, and then nobody has to feel left out if they're not part of what is happening. For instance, single people looking for husbands and wives used to feel left out because the image marriage had in the old days was so wonderful. w:Jane Wyatt and Robert Young. w:Nick and Nora Charles, Ethel and Fred Mertz, Dagwood and Blondie.
Andy Warhol
[ Titchener ] always seemed to me the nearest approach to genius of anyone with whom I have been closely associated.... He was competent with languages, and could ad lib in Latin when the occasion required it. If you had mushrooms, he would tell you at once how they should be cooked. If you were buying oak for a new floor, he would at once come forward with all the advantages of ash. If you were engaged to be married, he would have his certain and insistent advice about the most unexpected aspects of your problems, and if you were honeymooning, he would write to remind you, as he did me, on what day you ought to be back at work.
Edwin Boring
(The Queen of Housewife Rock) means I've reached a lot of people in a simplistic manner who would never go to a lecture or read an article on Women's Lib. My basic audience is women who have had their heads turned around by the knowledge that something's going on out there-that they can stay married and have their own identities. I'm not for the swinging singles. I have a career and marriage happening all at the same time, and that's the example I set.
Helen Reddy
