#oman

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#came #civilization #evolved #existence #french

And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave? ↗

— Trish Stratus

#doing #future #give #give me #i

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#mush #romance #stifling #strive #those

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#fiction #forget #found #go #good

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#change #complain #does #habits #man

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#accomplishes #admired #celebrated #class #firm

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#every #man #some #woman

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. ↗

— August Strindberg

#born #conventions #different #different points #exist

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#i #in the past #loved #man #must