I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.


Sylvia Pankhurst

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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what ...
SYLVIA EARLE
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are lim...
SYLVIA EARLE
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off fro...
SYLVIA PLATH
Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when...
SYLVIA PLATH
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million ga...
SYLVIA EARLE
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
SYLVIA PLATH
I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bo...
SYLVIA PLATH
Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want ...
SYLVIA PLATH
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss...
SYLVIA EARLE
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some kri...
SYLVIA EARLE
I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
SYLVIA PLATH
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. ...
SYLVIA EARLE
You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know w...
SYLVIA DAY
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
SYLVIA PLATH
A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
SYLVIA PLATH
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for ...
SYLVIA PLATH
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.
SYLVIA PLATH
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATH
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every br...
SYLVIA PLATH
There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surf...
SYLVIA PLATH
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowin...
SYLVIA PLATH
When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I craw...
SYLVIA PLATH
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we c...
SYLVIA EARLE
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, b...
SYLVIA EARLE
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of ...
SYLVIA KRISTEL
It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.
SYLVIA BROWNE
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, ...
SYLVIA EARLE
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
SYLVIA EARLE
My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual...
SYLVIA EARLE
I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide...
SYLVIA PLATH
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value enc...
SYLVIA EARLE
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf ...
SYLVIA EARLE
Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
SYLVIA PLATH
I just have to let the story go the way it needs to go and let them take the detours they want to ta...
SYLVIA DAY
See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.
SYLVIA BROWNE
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them di...
SYLVIA DAY
Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go...
SYLVIA BROWNE
Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that...
SYLVIA PLATH
I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rat...
SYLVIA PLATH
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am t...
SYLVIA PLATH
People are cruel, and they will do anything.
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as...
SYLVIA PLATH
One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that what...
SYLVIA PORTER
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
SYLVIA ROBINSON