The assumption that unmarried women (& people in general) are lonely & unloved is so terribly flawed. Bad marriages can truly be the loneliest places, & not being married can open up space for all kinds of beautiful relationships. Grateful for a life filled with love.
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell-
What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.-
“We are all on a train and it is racing toward a bridge that is out but no one on the train cares because they are busy arguing about train security measures or who gets to sit in which car or whether the train is only for people or whether the train is only for one sex or the other or maybe the train should be divided up according to race or language or religion and still the train races toward the bridge that is gone, races toward some chasm that will shatter it and so the people argue and do not care that their behavior means that they can never reach the future.”
— Charles Bowden-
There's a general paradox that a dictatorship, as long as it's strict and severe, is safe. The moment it starts to liberalise, it gives an inch and people take a yard.
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and freemen. Whoever doesn't have two thirds of his day for himself is a slave. Whatever else he maybe; a statesman, a businessman, an official or a scholar.
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"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
—William Shakespeare, Macbeth-
“The most dangerous risk of all: the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” ~ Alan Watts
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Telling stories doesn’t solve anything, doesn’t reassemble broken lives. But perhaps it is a way of understanding the unthinkable. If a story haunts us, we keep telling it to ourselves, replaying it in silence while we shower, while we walk down streets, or in our moments of insomnia.
- Valeria Luiselli-
I feel your absence like the ringing of bells silenced.
- Robert Duncan-