#ma

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#marriage #marriage

jeg ville gøre alt for, at alle skulle vide, hvem Sleiman var. Jeg stoppede aldrig for rødt lys. Jeg ville køre alt ned på min vej for at nå mit mål, og mit mål var at blive sat i tronstolen, så folk kunne sige: 'Se. Der sidder Gadens Prins.' Det blev jeg også, men da jeg var blevet det, var der mange, der hadede mig, og kun meget få, der elskede mig, fordi jeg havde gjort så meget ondt for at nå dertil. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#men

The great success of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ↗

— Sir Harold Nicholson

#marriage #success #inspirational

I’ve been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again. ↗

— Gladys Lawson

#sex-trafficking #men

You know about the Mother Goddess - the first female god, a fat woman with a lion on one side and a child between her legs. She was the first god of humankind. Do you know why than ancient people of Anatolia chose her as their god? Because men were not aware of their roles as impregnators. They thought that it was the wind, the rain, the rivers, in short, nature, that impregnated women. And this was not at all a strange idea at the time. People viewed themselves as part of nature. They thought birth was magic, a miracle. ↗

— Ahmet Ümit

#hittites #humanity #nature #women #men

I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, "Now, where did I put that lizard? ↗

— Barbara Sher

#imagination

To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#humanity #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is. ↗

— Angelo M. Swinson

#inspirational-quotes #marriage-advice #relationships #self-help #inspirational

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#imagination #literary-theories #imagination

They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington... ↗

— Claire Vaye Watkins

#inspiration #man-o-war #inspirational