#advice

Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self. ↗

— Betsy Lerner

#life

I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards your immortal soul. Seek God's glory in the Holy Land rather than your own, that I may see you in heaven if never again in France. ↗

— Sophie Perinot

#blanche-de-castile #louis-iv #motherhood #life

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

#writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-humor #love

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ↗

— Katherine Hepburn

#marriage

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though. ↗

— Tom McNeal

#love #marriage #marriage-advice #love

Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#funny #humour #male-female-relationships #marriage #relationships

Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool! ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#ataraxy #self-confidence #men

In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you. ↗

— David Mamet

#men #women #men

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you’re not willing to prioritize your writing, perhaps you should do something else? ↗

— Theodora Goss

#blog-post #books #reading #writing #money

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye. ↗

— David Mitchell

#human-nature #nature