"As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives."

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Wilfrid Sheed

#Home Quotes #Wife Quotes #Office Quotes

“It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is as Kipling put it, to fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.”
“Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.”
“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
“Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?”
“Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.”
“People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.”
“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press
“Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.”

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