"[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone."

-- Jeanne Phillips

#Girl Quotes #Teenage Quotes #Women Quotes

“Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
“I've got an IQ of 40 million.”
“Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.”
“... ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ...”
“I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking ourselves, how do we feel about the fact that our boyfriends, our husbands, our male partners might hire sex workers? They should have that conversation, but they shouldn't attach it to policy conversations that affect people.”
“It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance”
“Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!”
“It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”

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