#trim

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#bachelorhood #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#matrimony #particularly #similarity #taste #tastes

We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#advantage #aspects #carefully #change #detrimental

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #anybody #because #charge #give

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#ends #experience #first #highly #i

Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#arabia #been #both #china #countries

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#detrimental #economy #expected #gains #impact

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#buy #even #fur #glove #god

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#authentic #been #belief #come #could