#omen

That’s one of the best things about horror movies – they’re not real life. They’re like emotional cardio. They give us the chance to be terrified in a consequence-free environment. That’s the joy of all fiction, really: you get the benefit of experiencing something without the burden of having to actually experience it. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#blog-post #rothfuss #tinker-s-packs #experience

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take. ↗

— Christine E. Schulze

#adventuresome-women #ashlei #choice #coming-of-age #equal

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#horses #increases #large #only #performance

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#been #complete #generations #hence #revolution

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#affecting #commerce #country #directly #fact

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#effort #industrial #level #life #maintain

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#natural #pillar #role #women

Heroism is endurance for one moment more. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#heroism #moment #more

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? ↗

— Eugene Kennedy

#enjoy #life #literally #moments #nothing

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#affects #anymore #back #before #change