"The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet."

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Home Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.”
“At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.”
“We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!”
“You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.”
“Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.”

Source : Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.370, Pan Macmillan
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
“I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.”
“Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My Study Fire: First Series”

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