#sm

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#beauty

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all. ↗

— Tori Amos

#another #another woman #believe #biggest #feel

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#dismay #finding #finds #flower #heart

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#common #happy #little #lumped #minimalism

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#easy #enthusiasm #find #interest #intrigue

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#gardening #grown #i #just #like

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#definitely #ever #every #over #person

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#diagnosed #entire #entire lives #grew #i

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #me #qualities #rare

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#black-and-white #everybody #look #movie #smoking