Primer 24 — Quotes WITH BIRDHOUSES GIRLS + BOYS CAN BUILD
About the Text
Quotations from various sources under Fair Use clause.
About the Illustrations
From Birdhouses Boys Can Build by Albert F. Siepert, B.S., Professor of Manual Arts, Bradley Polytechnic Institute; originally published by Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois, 1916
16 pages; 4 x 7; saddle-stitched
$5.00
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
That’s a beautiful speech, but nobody’s listening.
— Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi
Fuck Art, let’s Dance!
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I fuck poverty and misfortune!
— Translation of Russian prison tattoo
Wisest of all, the Loafer stands apart supreme.
— Kenneth Grahame, Pagan Papers
Resist much, obey little.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
almost all our language has been taxed by war.
— Allen Ginsberg, Wichita Vortex Sutra #3
