#hem

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#ideal #many #names #them

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#give #god #had #her #least

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#fear #general #know #liberated #need

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all. ↗

— James MacArthur

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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#haven #nothing #poetry #produce #them

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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