#ren

They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers. ↗

— Ken Follett

#women #men

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#composers #different #different elements #elements #everything

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#bad #being #being different #country #different

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#great #i #made #married #parent

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#commercial #everyone #had #hat #i

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#between #defined #difference #expectations #our

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. ↗

— William Booth

#his #man #measure #power #surrender

Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn't a baby ought to have a baby, Which accounts for the success of such plays as the Irish Rose of Abie, The idea apparently being that just by being fruitful You are doing something beautiful, Which if it is true Means that the common housefly is several million times more beautiful than me or you. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #beauty

Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#parents #teenage-love #age