"A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood"

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Source : Amy Levy (1889). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”

Amy Levy

#Husband Quotes #Blood Quotes #May Quotes

“Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.”
“I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.”
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.”
“Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.”
“There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else.”
“I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.”

Source : "Book Talk: Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.
“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.”

Source : Don Herold (1924). “So human”
“The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa”

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