"We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old."

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Elizabeth Janeway

#Aging Quotes #Feels Quotes #Expected Quotes

“I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.”

Source : "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.
“Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?”

Source : Henry Theophilus Finck (1887). “Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations, Historic and National Peculiarities”
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
“If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one â€“ a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.”
“The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?”
“Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!”
“I work. I have a life. There's not much to tell.”
“Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame”

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