#men

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow… ↗

#louisa-may-alcott #shadow #sunshine #louisa-may-alcott

I wish I had no heart, it aches so… ↗

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #louisa-may-alcott

Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #humor #jace #mortal-instruments #humor

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#politics #second-amendment #humor

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#choice #contentment #dignity #empowerment #freedom

Stand in your own two shoes. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#empowering-beliefs #empowerment #responsibility #self-responsibility #self-belief

I was never in any danger," she said calmly. "Nothing can ever hurt me. Nothing can take me from me. ↗

— Sarah Winman

#self-empowerment

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#men #humor

Love covers a multitude of sins… ↗