#cal

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#feminism #radicals #women #age

Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall’s discount- appliance emporium. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#rosie-the-rivetere #zombie #zone-one-a-novel #business

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#billion #broadband #calls #carry #connections

People make up so many excuses why they couldn't call you. A real friend would find every reason in the world to call you. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#busy-people #excuses #no-call #real-friends #business

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#political-parties #politics #business

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time. ↗

— Meg White

#another time #basically #bit #burners #cd

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#compassion #cruel #cruelity #days-of-the-week #food-for-thought

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. ↗

— Paul de Man

#came #could #departure #desire #earlier

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know. ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#change

I cry a lot.' 'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#maggie #change