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Updated Quotes
17 October, 2K
WOMEN
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
~ Marion Anderson ~
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
~ Hannah Arendt ~
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
~ Hannah Arendt ~
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
~ Ruth Benedict ~
Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
~ Louise Bogan ~ 'Women' 1923
A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
~ Rita Mae Brown ~
I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
~ Rita Mae Brown ~
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We must have hope or starve to death.
~ Pearl Buck ~
Life itself is the proper binge.
~ Julia Child ~
We love because it's the only true adventure.
~ Nikki Giovanni ~
Life is change ... Growth is optional ... Choose wisely
~ Karen Kaiser Clark ~
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I loved her very much.
~ Lillian Hellman ~
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~ Helen Keller ~
There is no king who has not had to slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.
~ Helen Keller ~
Self-realization is not a matter of withdrawal from a corrupt world or narcissistic contemplation of oneself. An individual becomes a person by enjoying the world and contributing to
it.
~ Francine Klagsbrun ~
Ultimately, both parents and children are seen as individuals. For all their claims on one another, each is entitled to a life separate and distinct from the other.
~ Francine Klagsbrun ~
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~
In my friend, I find a second self.
~ Isabel Norton ~
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~ Susan Sontag ~
I learned from them that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly
and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
~ Brenda Ueland ~
MEN
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creation.
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
~ Sir Thomas Browne ~
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
~ Sigmund Freud ~
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
~ Erich Fromm ~
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
~ Hugh Mulligan ~
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart/ And try to love the questions themselves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
The only intrinsic evil is lack of love.
~ John Robinson ~
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
~ Stevie Wonder ~
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
When you can't stand criticism you learn to be a perfectionist.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Hebrew Proverb
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