"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."

-- Stephen Bayley

#Men Quotes #Assumption Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
“Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.”
“When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.”
“I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.”
“My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.”

Source : Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987
“True influence drives action, not just awareness.”
“All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.”

Source : Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.”

Source : Millicent Fawcett (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres

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