"Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them."

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Source : Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.122

Eliza Farnham

#Art Quotes #Office Quotes #Grace Quotes

“When I was younger there was something in me. I had passion. I may not have known what I was going to do with that passion, but there was something-and I still feel it. It's this little engine that roars inside of me and I just want to keep going and going.”
“The crime of loving is forgetting.”
“The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.”

Source : Gerald James Holton (1998). “The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction”, p.250, Harvard University Press
“Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.”
“I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.”
“When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.”
“Penny saved is a penny got.”
“Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.”

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