#ado

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ↗

— Amy Levy

#creature #flesh #husbands #lover #made

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#day #each #endless #every #fact

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#adolescent #infection #lot #more #rate

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#enough #found #growth #only #paradoxically

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#brown #different #even #good #i

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#al #al gore #debates #different #gore

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#i think #madonna #performer #think #wonderful