"When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours."

-- Marie Antoinette

#Important Quotes #Losing Quotes

“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”
“They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.”
“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
“The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.”
“Who said to kill does not require gentleness?”
“The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once”

Source : X. J. Kennedy (2002). “The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992–2001”, p.5, JHU Press
“Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.”
“One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.”

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