#elf

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #gender #girls

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship. ↗

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

#law #taxes #welfare #freedom

LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #equality #freedom #happiness #husbands

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#burn #come #end #finished #happen

Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone. ↗

— Sylvia Clare

#intuition #self-help #inspirational

Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #inspirational-quotes #risk-it #self-improvement #success

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dreams #expected #i #i write #just

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#became #i #myself

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. ↗

— Jane Rule

#apprenticeship #art #cut #forty #had

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#also #areas #been #dies #funny