"The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them."

-- Naomi Wolf

#Broken Quotes #Justice Quotes #Female Quotes

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
“No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.”
“The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.398, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
“In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.”

Source : Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.29, Tachyon Publications
“I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.”
“Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.”

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