"Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source."

-- Laurie Helgoe

#Problem Quotes #Source Quotes

“Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.”
“Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.”
“The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.
“Iâ€™ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.”
“Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course.”
“Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.”
“What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.”
“Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.”

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