#ria

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#patriarchy #womanism #change

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice. ↗

— Rob Liano

#commitment #divorce #hate #inspiration #inspirational

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#groth #inspirational #leadership #motivational #nationbuilding

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#be happy #being #expected #happy #her

I don't want you just in my thoughts always, I want you by my side always. ↗

— Brenda Hodnett

#marriage #inspirational

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#enlightening #fear #ignorance #inspirational #uknown

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world. ↗

— Claire Cross

#mark-on-the-world #materialism #dreams

The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#inspirational #success #inspirational

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#eaten #importance #like #marriage #matter

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends