"The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment."

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Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#Disappointment Quotes #Rise Above Quotes #Reason Quotes

“My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press
“It's very easy to fall in love with every character you play.”
“He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.”
“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”
“In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.”
“When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.”
“All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.”
“You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.”

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