#stand

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#lib #stand #women

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#children #creativity #name #out #pushing

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. ↗

— Joel Coen

#been #clear #comes #i #maybe

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#ask #continue #distance #explore #far

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#beauty #building #construction #foundation #look

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#fool #fools #love #only #think

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#called #enough #humble #mystery #something

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#man #objective #reach #song #stand