"The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months."

-- Suzanne Curchod

#Thinking Quotes #Broken Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.”
“Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.”
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
“I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.”

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“A rolling loan gathers no loss,”
“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.”
“What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?”

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