"...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and â€œWeâ€™ve got to be together in this thingâ€ when you meant the very opposite ... and then you were face to face, in total darkness, with the knowledge that you didnâ€™t know who you were. And how could anyone else be blamed for that?"

-- Richard Yates

#Opposites Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Together Quotes

“Life is luck, make it.”
“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”
“Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.”
“The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.”
“In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.”

Source : Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books
“I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.”
“What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.”
“The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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