#gh

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#condition #i #just #like #outsider

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ↗

— John Updike

#adult #bore #consumes #each #half

I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it. ↗

— Paul Gallagher

#i #supposed #thing #thought #were

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you. ↗

— James Van Praagh

#consciousness #exist #ghosts #happen #human-experience

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#daughters #family #here #i #jamie

Coincidences mean you're on the right path. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#destiny #fate #right-path #love

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. ↗

— Jack Vance

#fast #fly #go #going #i

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#come #especially #hard #know #material

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ↗