"Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys."

-- Liza Mundy

#Winning Quotes #Asking Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital
“You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.”
“Youâ€™re too important to just â€¦ die.â€ He shakes his head. He wonâ€™t even look at meâ€”his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. â€œIâ€™m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,â€ I say. â€œWho cares about everyone? What about me?”
“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 17, 2016
“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!”

Source : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.

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