#era

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right to devalue them . . . ? Maybe it was time to slow down and look at the role restrictions imposed not only on women but the men around them, to search for the balance that could promote self-sufficiency . . . ↗

— Lin Pardey

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #womens-rights #men

Needs are stronger than liking. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#philosphy #youth #life

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em. ↗

— Aristophanes

#greek-literature #love #marriage #marriage-humor #love

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#creativity #literature #writing #art

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#liberalism #money #social-gospel #socialism #money

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ↗

— Confucius

#motivational #perseverance #motivational

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. ↗

— Anthony Robbins

#motivational #perseverance #motivational

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#psychology #motivational

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead. ↗

— William H. Gass

#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus. ↗

— Francine Prose

#chekhov #literature #reading #art