"Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation."

-- Dorothy Parker

#Women Quotes #Irritation Quotes #Pity Quotes

“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”
“Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.”

Source : Marilyn French (2008). “From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World: Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century”, p.3, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.”
“But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.”
“Inspiration comes from everywhere. Western, Non-Western cultures - I'm open-minded. I love to travel. But not only for inspiration. Alas, timewise, I have a problem with that. Touring, museums, designing, babies.”
“I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.”
“In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.”

Source : "The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight: Waking up to personal and global transformation". Book by Thom Hartmann, 1998.
“As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist”

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