#ada

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#clothes #contained #degradation #every #feeds

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#because #chess #choice #competition #difficulties

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it. ↗

— Will Arnett

#because #coming #even #gotta #hadn

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#congenial #employ #hardest #most #people

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#corresponds #crystal #determining #method #nowadays

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. ↗

— Emily Carr

#feel #raw #wonderful

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#else #i #old #somebody #too

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#big #cost #each #error #expression

Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming." Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain. ↗

— R.L. LaFevers

#madame-hivern #men