#ere

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#be happy #being #expected #happy #her

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#different-perspective #inspiration #inspirational

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be. ↗

— Venus Williams

#know #play #tennis #where

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#always #end #go #i #need

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ↗

— Kemal Ataturk

#sovereignty #taken

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#completely #different #different levels #enjoy #levels

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#more #music #play #range #really

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

How are we suppose to thrive when everything we do in life is done to hinder us? We know more from the streets than from school. More from movies than books. The world is constantly trying to contain you, to make your life harder. You have to break free from this viscous current. Don't you see? Or you will be swept away into a sea of ordinary. ↗

— B.S. Wood

#difficulties #hope #inspirational #learning #motivational

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender