#age

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #control #create #escape #got

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#backwards #being #born #dad #growing

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#any #children #duties #fulfilling #heart

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first. ↗

— Howard Carter

#after #afternoon #almost #came #clearing

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#admiration #child #civic #courage #doctor

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #images #magazines #marketing

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#between #change #cornerstone #done #generations

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#feeling #give #i #image #knowing

President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#damage #entered #fight #fought #into

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. ↗

— David Chalmers

#helps #i #i can #language #probably