#les

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#adolescence #aside #authentic #display #experience

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. ↗

— George Plimpton

#because #being #bit #generation #i

I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#deadly #energy #falling #falling in love #first

He's really jealous, Ybon said rather weakly. Just have him meet me, Oscar said. I make all boyfriends feel better about themselves. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#jealousy #love-triangles #jealousy

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life-lessons #dating

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#wishes #life

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#authorized #baptize #god #grievous #him

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#began #chosen #editor #fifteen #had

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#another #another woman #any #approached #because

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway. ↗

— Bobby Short

#i #known #less #once #sneak