#ra

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#cows #eat #efficient way #enough #get

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women. ↗

— Alice Paul

#made #nationalities #party #program #races

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. ↗

— Alice Paul

#democracy #denied #million #million women #right

She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky. ↗

— Vivian Vande Velde

#funny #geek #girls #heir-apparent #dreams

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ↗

— Jean Paul

#god #planted #sigh #soul #unutterable

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ↗

— Jean Paul

#another #beautiful #else #forgiving #humanity

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. ↗

— Jean Paul

#descends #dew #does #down #evening

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ↗

— Jean Paul

#approach #becomes #before #bright #clear

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. ↗

— Jean Paul

#breathe #children #conscience #evil #formed

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ↗

— William Penn

#betray #only #shall #thee #thyself