A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate.


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GAY TALESE
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
GAY TALESE
The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
GAY HENDRICKS
As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body te...
GAY HENDRICKS
I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
ROXANE GAY
One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is tha...
ROXANE GAY
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to...
GAY TALESE
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or ca...
ROXANE GAY
What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that h...
ROXANE GAY
I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations agains...
ROXANE GAY
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they&...
ROXANE GAY
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed ...
ROXANE GAY
Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink ...
ROXANE GAY
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented op...
ROXANE GAY
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind ...
ROXANE GAY
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long ...
ROXANE GAY
There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I...
ROSS GAY
I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one ...
TYSON GAY
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be a...
ROXANE GAY
We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on...
ROXANE GAY
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not b...
ROXANE GAY
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the ca...
ROXANE GAY
All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do no...
ROXANE GAY
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to d...
TYSON GAY
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-wa...
GAY TALESE
A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and...
FRANCIS GAY
I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really qui...
ROXANE GAY
I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When ...
ROXANE GAY
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the e...
ROXANE GAY