"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

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Jessamyn West

#Success Quotes #Men Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.”
“The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple.”

Source : "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.
“The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.”
“You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous.”
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”

Source : William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press
“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”
“There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1974). “The Original Feminist Attack on the Bible: (The Woman's Bible).”, Arno Press

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