"There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life."

-- Erica Jong

#Peace Quotes #Men Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.”
“Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.49, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”
“...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.”
“So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.”
“If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.”
“In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.”
“A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.”

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