#other

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#aware #because #challenge #fail #failure

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#fail #failure #men #must #others

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#almost #certain #complete #details #directly

in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of this wish. unburdened by the demands of history or anyone else's dreams, i had wandered toward and finally reached a world far outside the plains i loved and loathed. my mother had neither begrudged me this journey nor expected it, certain that i had to make my own way. but she packed my toolbox with her great wit and forbearance before i went, and she stashed there, for long safekeeping, her desire. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#dreams

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#country #decent #eight #elected #get

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#did #guy #her #i #mother

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life. ↗

— Fred Durst

#life #other #reminisce #someone #times

In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#breasts #chests #cream #first #grow