"A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career."

-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

#Women Quotes #Eight Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies”

Source : Christina Dodd (2009). “Storm of Shadows: The Chosen Ones”, p.184, Penguin
“An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.”
“You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fancy is said within, or hide their faces in one which they pretend to peruse while somebody else lectures them on matters they'd rather not confront. But they do not read them. 'Twould be recursive, rendering each book effectively infinite, so that no single one might be finished without reading them all. This is the infallible message of discovering on which side of the page you are on.”
“Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance that for whatever reason or reasons seems to apply right now in mortality, in this nano-second of our eternal existence.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“Iâ€™m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after IÂ retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know whatÂ can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memoryÂ problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I haveÂ to work harder, but itâ€™s important.”
“If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!”
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.”
“Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.”

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