"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."

-- Isadora Duncan

#Marriage Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.”

Source : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
“When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.”
“But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.”
“They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.”
“I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.”
“Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.”
“There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.”
“Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.”

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