#claim

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. ↗

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

#claim #constant #feminine #ground #implicit

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#air #beauty #changes #claim #forest

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. ↗

— Katherine Fullerton Gerould

#lies #method #science #subject

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#claim #how #i #make #many

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#civil #civil war #claimed #day #did

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#claiming #distrusted #easier #fiction #get

I began to turn my body, but he held me and laid me back onto the bed, insistently, kissing my breasts but not lingering, kissing a line down my stomach and lower. “You want me to prove to you that I want you more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life, Roses. Is that true, aye? Because I just can’t take this anymore.” I gasped as he licked into my sensitive flesh, wetting me with his soft strokes, speaking soft words against my skin. “If you insist on doubting me, Roses, if you absolutely insist on breaking down every defense that I have with your tears and your plush, wet, ripe beauty, then that’s what I’ll have to do, lass. Is that what you want from me? Proof?” I could only sigh a soft response, already falling, burning, wanting too much. ↗

— Juliette Miller

#juliette-miller #roses #wilkie #beauty

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#band #busted #claim #fun #i

It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#claim #experience #non-spiritual #religious #spiritual