"The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them."

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Jessica Valenti

#Jobs Quotes #Smart Quotes #Important Quotes

“Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!”
“Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.”
“It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.”
“The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.”
“Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.”

Source : Ronald Knox (2012). “The Viaduct Murder”, p.56, Hachette UK
“Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.”
“For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.”

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