#ld

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. ↗

— Henrietta Szold

#duties #freed #perform #positive #them

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#guess #i #i write #love #much

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#communism #communist #doctrine #had #happen

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#find #grow #i #more #myself

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me. ↗

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#dad #fine #get #grandchildren #i

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me. ↗

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#always #back-up #ever #had #i

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. ↗

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#could #desire #desired #die #feel

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#bit #care #children #cooking #doing

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop. ↗

— Ice T

#breaks #core #dj #does #get