#gains

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#children #even #even now #fathers #feminism

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#am #giving #head #hitting #i

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things. ↗

— Penny Marshall

#around #better #certain #certain things #go

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#any #anybody #bridge #come #destroy

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#consider #countries #day #did #even

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#bury #i #just #nothing #personally

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. ↗

— James Montgomery

#ask #hope #receive #till

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#because #beings #human #human beings #i

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#against #difficult #fundamentalism #fundamentalists #increasing

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. ↗

— George William Norris

#american #american lives #asking #certain #congress