"Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter."

-- Sheryl Sandberg

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“The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2013). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.151, House of Stratus
“There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.”
“Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.”
“[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.”
“Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.”

Source : P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.77, Macmillan
“I pretended indifferenceâ€¦even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.”
“Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world”
“Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that part of the job will be left undone. But fit in we certainly do somehow, else we would not have a sense of our own responsibility. A purely materialistic philosophy is to me the height of unintelligence.”

Source : "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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