#band

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #happiness #husbands

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#child-development #life

And I want you now I want you now I'll feel my heart implode And I'm breaking out Escaping now Feeling my faith erode ↗

— Muse

#muse-band #faith

My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front! ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#been #busy #exceedingly #front #get

Sing of my deeds Tell of my combats How I fought the treacherous demons Forgive my failings And bestow on me peace ↗

— Phoolan Devi

#combats #dacoit #deeds #justic #forgiveness

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗

— Iain Pears

#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy

And then she felt her Ell’s great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in hers. Oh. Oh. They would not abandon her. Of course, they would not. How silly she had been. They were her friends—they had always been. Friends can go odd on you and do things you don’t like, but that doesn’t make them strangers. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#friendship #friendship

The sky is full of dreams, but you don't know how to fly. ↗

— The Killers

#band #beautiful #brandon-flowers #day-and-age #dreams

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#humor #husbands #intelligence #intelligent #marriage