"The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition."

-- Jeannette Rankin

#Respect Quotes #Independent Quotes #Self Quotes

“This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.”
“Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there.”

Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”
“Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.”
“I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.”
“As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.”
“Please donâ€™t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.”
“If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.”
“I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.”

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