"One writes in order to feel ..."

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Muriel Rukeyser

#Writing Quotes #Order Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”
“This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.”

Source : Orson Pratt (1874). “The Bible & Polygamy: Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy? A Discussion Between Professor Orson Pratt and Rev. Doctor J.P. Newman in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, August 12, 13, and 14, 1870”, p.83
“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.”
“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.”
“Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.”
“For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.”
“Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)”
“Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.”

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