#imagine

Growing up seems easier for men, maybe because their rites of passage are clearer. They perform acts of bravery on the battlefield or show they're men through physical labor or by making money. For women, it's more confusing. We have no rites of passage. Do we become women when a man first makes love to us? If so, why do we refer to it as a loss of virginity? Doesn't the word 'loss' imply that we are better off before? I abhor the idea that we become women only through the physical act of a man. No, I think we become women when we learn what is important in our lives, when we learn to give and to take with a loving heart. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Phillips

#just-imagine #love #romance #imagination

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. ↗

— Scott Adams

#before #businesses #capital #cartooning #cartoonist

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#along #comes #every #five #hundred

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. ↗

— David Antin

#hard #hardly #how #i #imagine

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#imagined #life #more #real #reality

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#could #expression #faces #happy #i

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#evil #good #imagine

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cling #deal #forced #gone #hate

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#definition #heart #himself #his #imagines

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#him #his #imaginary #imagine #kid