"You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening. When women find the right person, on the other hand, they just... disappear for six months, then resurface, eyes shiny, and usually about six pounds heavier."

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Source : Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.153, Random House

Caitlin Moran

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Selfish is an exploitation of others for self; selfless is an exploitation of self for others. Both are extrinsic. ..... Selfness. When selfness prevails, the qualities of others are sometimes used for self and the qualities of self are often extended to others. The basic and key difference is that exploitation is never the object of the outcome.”
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
“Working by heart means using your feelings and emotions to lead you to your spiritual sense of existence.”
“I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of life and death, meaning just the breathing and living and thinking experience-that's what art is.”
“For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.”
“So as I increase in my knowledge, in my training and education, I increase in my value in my worth to society that Iâ€™m trying to penetrate.”
“I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.”

Source : "Der Afrikafeldzug: Rommels Wüstenkrieg 1941-1943". Book by Franz Kurowski, p. 112, 1986.
“My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.”

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