#standard

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#am #amazing #anywhere #competition #development

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#conversation #double-standards #feminism #fiction #gender

Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#constitutional #election #government #meets #only

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#internet #just #lowered #media #news

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#aspire #because #caring #doing #everybody

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#certainly #clear #course #double #food

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards. ↗

— Jay Pharoah

#clubs #out #say #standards #tv

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#applications #device #importance #kind #making

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#both #brought #closer #collect #consume