#po

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born Lord, your love is amazing ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it. ↗

— Paul Gallagher

#i #supposed #thing #thought #were

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. ↗

— Peter Utley

#contemporary history #exercise #funeral #history #obituary

It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. ↗

— Leon Uris

#find #important #know #want #you

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#filmmaker #i #i think #kind #opportunity

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#been #excluded #myth #national #population

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#illium #reporters #beauty

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. ↗

— Paul Valery

#everything #impossible #must #poetry #said

Power without abuse loses its charm. ↗

— Paul Valery

#charm #loses #power #without