#longed

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation. ↗

— William Odom

#belonged #i #never #party

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems. ↗

— Hans Frank

#adolf #associates #belonged #circle #closest

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #human #human history #page #prolonged

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#children #different #each #effect #even

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#instance #nation #prolonged #warfare

I belonged to another club, and liked the camaraderie. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#belonged #camaraderie #club #i #liked

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#bashful #being #belonged #court #dull