#termination

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. ↗

— George Bentham

#botany #career #decided #determination #devote

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #fortitude #goals #impossible #inspirational

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#camps #deportation #extermination #internal #jews

In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#effort #empowerment #focus #games #life

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#determination #hackers #kids

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance. ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#capable #determination #dignity #firm #give

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan. ↗

— Claire Cook

#life-lesson #life

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#confederacy #could #federal #independence #mean

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#another #because #clearly #determination #failed