"I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination."

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Source : Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80

Sarah Fielding

#Marriage Quotes #Women Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.”
“A secret makes a woman woman - Vermouth”
“If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language”
“Zombieland reference," Jon said, nodding. "How do you know that? That's a thousand-year-old reference!" I looked at laura. "I can't think of a single movie from a thousand years ago." "Uh...Betsy..." "Don't say it." You know how you don't know how stupid something is until you hear yourself say it? That happened to me a lot.”
“Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.”
“Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.”

Source : Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.12, Vintage
“Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.”
“The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: thereâ€™s no right way and wrong way to do it. Weâ€™re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if heâ€™s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?”

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