"Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Confidence Quotes #Fine Quotes #Over Confidence Quotes

“Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.”

Source : Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.16, Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.”
“When Iâ€™m working with materials itâ€™s not just the leaf or the stone, itâ€™s the processes that are behind them that are important. Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.”
“The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and girls, beheadings, stoning to death, floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most brutal and visible aspects of women's rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East”
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.”
“Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.”
“I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.”
“With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.”

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