#omen

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ↗

— Aphra Behn

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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#conceives #curiosities #his #impulse #journalist

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#finger #had #i #literally #pulse

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. ↗

— Max Bill

#art #basis #being #borrowing #call

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#kill #life #men #preservation #up

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#bit #children #first #frightened #moment

I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#become #between #black #blue #calling

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#end #i #lose #moment #shall

When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one. ↗

— Susan Anton

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