#men

It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend all her time trying to forget her life before children because she loved them too much to be reminded of the heat of Rome in the summer and a beautiful girl who turned heads as she walked down an Italian strada. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#women-s-liberation #women-s-rights #beauty

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#communicating #i #me #read #saw

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant. ↗

— Scott Cook

#government #pension #people #place #plans

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#breed #does #done #give #inevitably

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#i #instruments #means #play #suppose

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing. ↗

— C.J. Sansom

#xenophobia #men

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#assume #california #culture #dig #equipment

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. ↗

— Francis Marion Crawford

#elements #everyone #friendship #make #make up

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#being #editorials #i #intimate #just