#reo

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#crawling #dance #down #improvise #life

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#preocupation #worries #worry #life

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater. ↗

— Tonya Harding

#figure #i #never #skater #stereotypical

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#men-and-women #love

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#gender-stereotypes #men #women #men

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. ↗

— Woody Allen

#men-and-women #love

He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#contemporary #gender-stereotypes #romance #sep #men

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#men-and-women #men