"But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways."

-- Lauren Groff

#Talking Quotes #Ledges Quotes #Care Quotes

“Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.”
“The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.74, Wesleyan University Press
“During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics
“Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.”
“When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.”
“Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.63, Broadview Press
“Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?”

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