"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."

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Source : Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.59, Broadview Press

Mary Astell

#Mean Quotes #Needs Quotes #Capable Quotes

“Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.”

Source : EUGENIA PRICE (1959). “WOMAN TO WOMAN”
“My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.”
“Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.”
“Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.”
“The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.”
“You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.”
“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”

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