#om

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. ↗

— Tillie Olsen

#reality #right #say #surface #women

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it. ↗

— Carl Olson

#american way #bad #bugs #kill #like

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness. ↗

— Judith Martin

#community #family #miss-manners #relationships #age

I have come up the hard way. ↗

— Johnny Olson

#hard #hard way #i #up #way

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#attractive people #comedies #complexity #deal #end

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#i #i can #instrument #make #only

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah. ↗

— Lupe Ontiveros

#judge #lesbian #long #play #some

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#atomic bomb #beyond #bomb #country #different

I am committed to glamour. ↗

— Rita Ora

#committed #glamour #i #i am

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'? ↗

— May Sarton

#femininity #gender #masculine-feminine #women #writers