#inherit

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#benefits #better #better off #children #control

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#hand #i #inherited #monarchy #over

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#catastrophes #exclusively #fabulous #happens #inheritances

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. ↗

— Marc Webb

#identity #inherit #own #you #your

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#heredity #history #inheritance #values #change

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere. ↗

— Jane Campion

#anywhere #cult #different #down #ethos

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#definition #establishing #everybody #everyone #family

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #genius #imagination #inherited #lying

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#i #i think #inherit #life #overcome

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#drastic #drastic change #equipped #exists #find