#handmaid

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#values

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ↗

— Horace

#how #mistress #money #thou #use

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#conscientious #duty #energetic #good #good luck

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy. ↗

— Richard Morris

#been #had #handmaid #liturgy #music

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#creativity #handmaiden

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love

I was nervous. How was I to know he loved me? It might be just an affair. Why did we ever say just? Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#best #handmaid #happiness #literature #mythology

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#language #mother #thought

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#handmaiden #leisure