#we

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#choir #crucifixion #event #front #go

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#addictive #audience #becomes #between #energy

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#between #difference #else #everybody #everybody else

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#about #characters #get #get married #married

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#dream #i #i dream #look #never

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#been #days #ever #first #house

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#failures #i #more #nine #observed

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#i #i dream #never #say #see