"I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me."

-- Gwethalyn Graham

#Marriage Quotes #Husband Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”
“My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.”

Source : William Rosenberg, Jessica Brilliant Keener (2001). “Time to Make the Donuts”, Lebhar-Friedman
“I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.”
“An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.”
“There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.”
“And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.”
“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalistâ€™s work.”
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

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