#ere

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

The riders, too, were like nothing she had ever seen before: ethereal men and women with pale visages, their cheekbones so sharply sculpted that she could see their skulls through translucent skin. They surrounded her and looked at her with steely blue eyes, each gaze an arrow staking her to that spot, and she could not close her eyes though the sight of them made her eyes burn as if she were looking at the sun. ↗

— Malinda Lo

#faeries #fairies #the-fair-folk #men

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

#gender-stereotypes #men-and-women #men

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#future #inspiration #life #mindfulness #past

My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs. ↗

— Mychael Danna

#choirs #different #i #musicians #orchestras

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) ↗

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

#inspirational #spanish #wisdom #inspirational

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. ↗

— Elihu Root

#dangerous #differences #incitement #more #most

Go. Go right now, and as soon, and as often as you can. Keep going. ↗

— Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#perseverence #inspirational

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#living-in-the-present #the-future #the-past-cannot-be-altered #inspirational

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#everyone #far #far less #get #harder