#oman

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#average #average intelligence #been #complete #contemptuous

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#artist #every #every man #great #her

I was Google's first woman engineer. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#first #google #i #woman

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#been #being #had #i #me

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#girlfriend #giving #god #i #introduced

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. ↗

— Benjamin E. Mays

#distinctive #does #done #every #every man

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#career #drive #forties #getting #i

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#chance #characters #confess #deeply #delicious

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. ↗

— David McCallum

#existence #had #i #lead #more