"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."

Duncan, Isadora | Love | 2 bookmarks

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. | Love | 40 bookmarks

"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis | Love | 11 bookmarks

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu | Freedom | 37 bookmarks

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

Whitehead, Alfred North | Familiarity | 2 bookmarks

"Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds."

Kempton, Sally | Women | 4 bookmarks

"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."

Goldman, Emma | Women | 2 bookmarks

"Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim."

Farquhar, George | Women | 1 bookmarks

"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him."

Cher | Women | 5 bookmarks

"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

Carter, Angela | Women | 4 bookmarks