#ay

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#duller #earth #london #ours #rainy

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#alone #come #essential #into #leave

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#child #curse #cursing #gay #may

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#america #complicated thing #last #life #may

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#kids #learn #lessons #many #need

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#core #display #even #great #had

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#freedom #full #i #letters #never

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bible #box #coat #even #female

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#being #children #coming #could #fit