"I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot."

-- Elizabeth Berg

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.”

Source : Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.
“One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.”

Source : Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu
“I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the â€œhalf closet.”
“She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and ancient spirits whence he had taken her. That was the place of her heart, and if he loved her, he must let her go.”
“The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.”
“I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.”
“Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.”
“I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.”

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