"But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass."

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Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Bargain”

Mary Jo Putney

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cows Quotes

“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.”
“There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.”
“One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.”
“With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.”
“Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

Source : On being criticized by Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons, 'Hansard' 14 June 1978, col. 1027
“There's no love in my songs. There's just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that's intentional, that's what I like. I love the whole idea of Motown. Their idea was to sing how down on their luck they were, but the song implied hope that it would get better. I liked that idea, and I wanted to go even further with it.”
“When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.”
“The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.”

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