#les

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#always #am #asking #every #i

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing? ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to. ↗

— John Lindsay

#enables #faster #ladies #may #run

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh. ↗

— Dan Brown

#control #dan-brown #flesh #tattoo #the-lost-symbol

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis. ↗

— Trent Lott

#anything #eventually #folks #founded #free

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses. ↗

— Mia Love

#america #both #cannot #communities #difficulties

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights. ↗

— Peter Munk

#because #economic #economic security #first #focus

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated. ↗

— David Low

#another #bernard #churchill #each #even