#eminence

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#empowerment #feminism #gender #inequality #men

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#animal #anymore #been #cross #dare

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#born #eminence #late #persons #right

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. ↗

— William McKinley

#conflict #eminence #ever #interest #let us

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#eminence #greatness #i #knew #late

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#great #great person #greater #less #makes

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#amazing #amazing life #around #bid #complicated