#po

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. ↗

— Ann Richards

#dancing #politics #texas #women #women

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#travel

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poetry #travel #travel

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#make #man #more #opportunities #than

What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #trust

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#wisdom #wisdom

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. ↗

— Bette Davis

#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#power #strong #unfair #weak #women

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. ↗

— Rebecca West

#empowerment #feminism #opinions #women #womens-liberation

Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. I am praying. I'm talking to you, right? Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy #poseidon #pray #work