"It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority."

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Source : Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

Katharine Whitehorn

#Giving Up Quotes #Men Quotes #Iron Quotes

“He who hath many friends hath none.”
“Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.”
“I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.”
“All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”
“My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.”
“What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something very simple. To me, it's just a moment - a moment where we look at the ordinary, but we see the extraordinary. It happens all the time in my photography.”
“She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her.”
“Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.”

Source : "POLITICO Interview: Gov. Bredesen". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.

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