Mansfield/criticisms

Famous quotes containing the words mansfield and/or criticisms:

“I’m a writer first & a woman after.”
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.”
—William James (1842–1910)