"People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Movement Quotes

“By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.
“I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.109, Vintage
“If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.”
“I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.”
“When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.”
“Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.”
“Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.”
“--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”

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