#dl

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid. ↗

— Bill Condon

#avidly #back #been #dark #dark shadows

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. ↗

— Bill Condon

#english #european #hollywood #maids #middle

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#because #even #handled #i #loved

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. ↗

— Sean Connery

#democratic #fundamentally #government #hardly #people

I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#citizen #delightful #i #just #like

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#breeding #class #crime #delirium #grounds

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that. ↗

— Kevin Conroy

#adolescent #audience #batman #being #bruce

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#american #american people #business #buying #chief

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#however #middle #rest #sun