#omen

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#makes #moment #prudence #quick #use

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. ↗

— David Duchovny

#daughter #happiest #life #moment #my life

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#because #equal #fiction #good #more

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#eureka-moments #nature #peace #self-knowledge #beauty

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#being #being different #believes #country #different

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#blood #civilization #morals #our #position

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#because #children #classed #however #i

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#close #complications #connection #fact #fluctuations

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#always #bound #considered #down #even