#century

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#author #boyfriend #crush #dead #girl

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#become #century #could #few #flexibility

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#century #class #class warfare #goes #i

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#african #african americans #battling #century #major

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#century #form #full #longer #nations

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#century #continent #destined #enable #exceeding

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ↗

— Greg Egan

#caffeine #century #explains #lot #twentieth

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. ↗

— Ken Follett

#century #genre #literary #most #popular

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. ↗

— John Fowles

#great #lack #misery #our #supposed