#elves

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. ↗

— Tori Amos

#divine #done #follows #greatest #how

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. ↗

— Tori Amos

#analyze #begin #bleeding #cleansing #crawl

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bit #lock #many #part #people

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#get #like #more #neither #older

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#always #became #both #colored #controlled

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#answers #any #ask #clear #everyone

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#fiscal #footing #get #group #i

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #enough #learned #once #rules