#th

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. ↗

— Henrietta Szold

#duties #freed #perform #positive #them

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#communism #communist #doctrine #had #happen

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#confirmed #history #liberate #only #oppressed

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. ↗

— Ice T

#anybody #art #art form #back #because

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. ↗

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#i #paint #things

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#bestowed #better #blesses #days #gives

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#down #growth #money #our #pay

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#equal #ever #failure #faint #i