#allowed

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? ↗

— Auguste Comte

#allowed #biology #chemistry #freely #men

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#because #day #done #every #every night

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#apartment #bedroom #just #see #stage

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#am #attentive #bigger #changed #circumstances

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#allowed #asked #bloated #calmly #fat

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady. ↗

— Gloria Gaynor

#being #emotionally #even #everything #human

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#any #born #born to be #category #children

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#become #been #better #civilised #dirty

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom