#mini

Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#feminism #fiction #freedom #freedom

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#artist #felt #feminist #honored #i

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#basic #failures #keep #made #makes

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#down #field #i #later #office

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#american experience #art #art form #completely #diminish

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#administration #already #america #begun #confusing

You have a life; make a success of it. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#biography #education #general #inspirational #leadership

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#botany #chemistry #course #decisive #determining

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. ↗

— Steven Berkoff

#director #great #house #opera #opera house

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation. ↗

— Susie Bright

#course #feminism #followed #got #i