#omen

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#enjoy #moments #seize #surprise #take

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #ever #everything #find #found

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#culture #death #how #i #islamic

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world. ↗

— Nichelle Nichols

#attached #characters #known #life #name

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#europe #experience #large #sympathy #women

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#doomed #envision #fall #found #happen

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#character #cultivated #happiness #like #moment

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#cry #cute #first #i #man

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me. ↗

— Max Reger

#before #behind #house #i #i am

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#doing #dominating #kicking #prisoners #taking