"After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'"

-- Anna Quindlen

#Morning Quotes #Smart Quotes #Women Quotes

“In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.”

Source : 1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.
“Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.”
“This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?”

Source : Kamala Markandaya (2000). “Nectar in a sieve and related readings”
“You are a guest of nature - behave.”
“That's what I've found through yoga: yoga helps us to sort of rewire the mind so that we can literally become more mindful of the conversation we're having on the back end, what we're telling ourselves.”
“She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention." "And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.”
“Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.”

You may also like:

Barbara Kingsolver
Novelist
Chuck Palahniuk
Novelist
Jhumpa Lahiri
Author
Kelly Corrigan
Writer
Kristin Hannah
Writer
Meryl Streep
Actress
Nick Kelsh
Author
Sue Monk Kidd
Writer
Terence
Playwright