Permanent Status

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“... the most important effect of the suffrage is psychological. The permanent consciousness of power for effective action, the knowledge that their own thoughts have an equal chance with those of any other person ... this is what has always rendered the men of a free state so energetic, so acutely intelligent, so powerful.”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)

“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)