| "One is not born a woman, one becomes a woman." Simone de Beauvoir "She was the walking woman. That was it. She had walked off all sense of society-made values, and, knowing the best when the best came to her, was able to take it." Mary Austin "In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart" Louise Bogan Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones." Charlotte Bronte "You dont have to like me for who I am but we'll see what your made of by what you made of me." Ani Difranco ( ONE OF MY FAVORITES ) "Never apologize, never retreat, never explain. Get the thing done and let them howl." Nellie Mc Clung, a Canadian suffragist and writer in Canada in 1918. She was one of the people most influential and active in obtaining the vote for women in Canada in 1918. She lived to the early 1940's. "A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done" Marge Piercy (FAVORITE OF MINE) "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, `I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.` You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Beware of the three stages of denial: 1. Not me 2. Not yet 3. Not that bad "Ignorance is bliss but it's still ignorance...." Sure you may think your smart..but we all know the truth...." "Fools reproduce only to outnumber us...." "If at first you don't succeed...don't act surprised....". "Joy may be fleeting, but doubt and self loathing are life long companions...." "If there were a contest for losers...you would come in second...." "Remember things are never so bad that they can't get worse..." "Just because your paranoid ...doesn't mean we aren't out to get you....." "Whenever you think you have won....its certain you have just lost......." "The best things in life are already taken." "Bitter people are ugly people." "If you were wise, you would know never to cut your nose off to spite your face." "Liars, cheats and braggarts foolishly believe that all mankind lives a deceitful life." |
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| Some Inspiring & Not So Inspiring Quotes.... |
| "To the foolish, every utterance of nonsense seems like wisdom." "People spend a lifetime searching for happiness, looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is that the only place they ever needed to search was within." "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear , do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." "If you don't set a baseline standard for what you will except in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that is far below what you deserve." "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what other's think you are." "Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe it in vulgar or shoddy attire." "You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insults. Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." "Happiness belongs to the self sufficient....If you show yourself as a fat helpless slug, a slug's life is your reward." "Physical bravery is an animal instinct, moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage." "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." "Don't surround yourself with people who have nothing better to do than waste your time." |
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| "When you live your life consumed by the seven deadly sins; Gluttony, Lust, Envy, Anger, Sloth, Pride & Greed you should expect no more just rewards than what you reap by them." |
| "Criminal behavior in the deranged is most often accompanied by protest and accusation towards the victim or victims, thereby reinforcing their guilt and illness at once." |
| "Pity....... it costs nothing .... it's worth nothing." |
| "She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires" ~ E.R. |
| "The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves." |
| "Envy is a littleness of soul,which cannot see beyond a certain point,and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded" |
| "Jealousy is a mental cancer." |
| "Envy is the most stupid of vices, because there is no single advantage to be gained from it." |