#lt

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#frailty #old-age #time #age

And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him. ↗

— Willa Cather

#money

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#results #series #victory #war

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#candidates #culture #different #especially #female

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#fabricated #felt #fifties #i #living

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#hands #iraq #kind #our #out

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. ↗

— Chuck Close

#bigger #color #colors #could #did

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#anger #black-feminism #feminism #guilt #oppression

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them. ↗

— Glenn Close

#hear #i #i think #oh #somebody

Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#affordable #all americans #bringing #cost #democrats