#ban

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#easier #feet #get #good #husband

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#becoming #better #better place #children #community

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#easy #even #get #made #members

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#alienation #arrest #put #under #you

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#first #internet #our #school #school system

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#bandage #big #broke #girl #gym

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. ↗

— Kate Millett

#away #government #how #husband #kind

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#chiefly #good #husbands #lovers #their