#men

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#earth #environment #nature #preservation #survival

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#gender-equality #women #equality

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way. ↗

— Aberjhani

#african-americans #antiracism #equality #george-zimmerman #justice

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#wisdom #women #manifestation

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#experience #massochism #memory #pain #wisdom

I shot him an unimpressed look. “Do you really think you’ll win me over by having sex with me?” He scratched at the side of his chin. “Well, they say the way to a woman’s heart is through her vagina. ↗

— Karina Halle

#experiment-in-terror #perry #experience

I feel like I’m a disappointment to mankind,” he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. “Someone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum. ↗

— Karina Halle

#experiment-in-terror #perry #romance #sex #experience

Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #living-in-the-present #motivational

Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#experiment #explore #fail #inspirational-quotes #life

Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment. - Tara Daniels - ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#judgment #life-experience #experience