"The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity."

Dworkin, Andrea on mothers   

"No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on mothers   

"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on mothers   

"A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man."

Eliot, George on mothers
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"But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man."

Eliot, George on mothers   

"Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

Goldman, Emma on mothers   

"Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter."

Rollin, Betty on mothers   

"Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully."

Weldon, Fay on mothers   

"When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently."

Bhagavad Gita on feelings
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"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

Allen, James on tranquility
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"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."

Connolly, Cyril on tranquility   

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

Hobbes, Thomas on tranquility
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"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."

Burke, Edmund on tolerance
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"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on tolerance
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"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

Colton, Charles Caleb on tolerance
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"Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"TRUST: I know that you will not -- deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously -- take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence."

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray on trust
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"You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts."

Swift, Graham on trust   

"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

Baldwin, James on pessimism
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"Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play."

Hardy, Thomas on pessimism   

"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."

Angelis, Barbara De on courage
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"The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from."

Baillie, Joanna on courage   

"The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior."

Battista, D.A. on courage
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"Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers."

Bonnell, John S. on happiness
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."

Alther, Lisa on contradiction
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on consistency   

"You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on consistency   

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

Joubert, Joseph on consistency   

"It is tact that is golden, not silence."

Butler, Samuel on tact and tactfulness
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"Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence."

Butler, Samuel on tact and tactfulness
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"A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."

Franklin, Benjamin on tact and tactfulness
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"Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."

Herford, Oliver on tact and tactfulness
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"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading."

Jewett, Sarah Orne on tact and tactfulness
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"Tact is the intelligence of the heart."

Unknown, Source on tact and tactfulness   

"Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree."

Batcheller, Irving on opinions   

"Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end."

Brooks, Phillips on opinions   

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."

Chuang Tzu on opinions   

"A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay."

Downey Jr., Robert on opinions