“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
