#trim

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#empowerment #feminism #gender #history #independence

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#family #i #other #people #traditional

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. ↗

— Frank Leslie

#expect #find #good #joyful #matrimony

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#keep #lose #me #never #rule

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD. ↗

— Jay Roach

#does #dvd #easier #knowing #little

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#comedy #comics #detrimental #drama #fast

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#best #does #generally #him #indignation

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#about #always #did #i #i always

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#feminism #hate #love #marriage #married-life

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#happiness #harmony #keystones #love #marriage