"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."

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Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

Anzia Yezierska

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“Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.11, John Hunt Publishing
“Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.”
“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
“He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.”

Source : Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.85, David C Cook
“Testosterone should be a controlled substance.”
“The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.”
“I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays â€” they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the yearâ€”but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?”

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