#creatures

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#citizens #creatures #duties #fathers #free

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#being #condition #creatures #himself #his

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#draw #drop #earth #fear #heavenly

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#beautiful #benevolent #both #could #creatures

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#creatures #fills #interest #little #live

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#better #christian #coat #code #creatures

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#convenient #creatures #down #follow #messy

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#created #creatures #earth #error #fallible

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. ↗

— Maya Lin

#apart #architecture #art #crazy #creatures