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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. Frances Wright

Liberty Tyranny Threshold Own Others Our Liberties Uncertain Step Thus Sure Without Exert Doing Expense Them Justly Platform Injury

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. Frances Wright

Good Women Feeling Sense Society Assume Alike Must Good Sense Shall Advance Until Venture However Improvement May Human Place Which Them Appear Novel Assertion Good Feeling Assign

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. Frances Wright

First Judgment Action Consequences Our Rule Religious Religious Belief Wrong Longer Look Trace Force Make Square Sensations Place Then Deduce Actions Belief Right Imaginations

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. Frances Wright

Respect Will Powers Itself Awaken

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? Frances Wright

Liberty Feelings Rightly Has-Been Civilized Civilized Nations Attention Generous Understood Been May Human Nations While Engaged Enlightened Enlisted

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. Frances Wright

Man Animal Single Mental Directed Only Imperfect Faculties He Knows Equally Exercise However His Curiously Who Lives Muscles

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. Frances Wright

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. Frances Wright

Man Selfish Heart Competition Progress Edge Extreme Carried Has-Been Finest Point Generous Most Principle Isolated Been His Existing Impulses Sensibilities Blunted Interest Sympathies

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men. Frances Wright

Happiness Words Wealth Men Markets More Supply Demand Powers Hear Labor Forget Any Nations Mean Then Production Thing Necessities

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. Francis Jeffrey

Good Will Lost Name Like Got Many Actions

I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!' Gail Honeyman

Birthday You Mind Focus Big Think Write Heading Towards Does Always Go Want Wanted Anything Should Your Now

I don't come to London very often. Gail Honeyman

London Come Very Often

I've always found Glasgow to be a wonderful city - warm and funny and full of kindness. Gail Honeyman

Funny Kindness Wonderful City Glasgow Always Warm Full Found

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful. Gail Honeyman

Loneliness Wonderful Debate Way Some Small Fuel Helped

If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that. Gail Honeyman

Life You Life Is A Real Life Down Bit About More Point Point Of View Write Alluring True Narrative Always Real Than Fiction Wanted Break View Novel Things

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing. Gail Honeyman

Life Experience Perspective Bit Bad Life Experience Bad Thing Thing

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have. Gail Honeyman

Time Loneliness Seriously Long Long Time Society Impact Both Taken Individuals Understand Issue Huge Begin Us Treated

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces. Gail Honeyman

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