E Quotes
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“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”
Source: A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962
“Every woman wants to be wanted - just not by the entire Metropolitan police force.”
Source: Mad Cows
“Every woman wants to feel great about themselves. It's just nice to feel supported in that way, and it's what my live shows are about - just making women feel stronger, and better, and celebrating. You get to see people's flaws and everyone comes together in their own way. But it's also nice to celebrate who they are.”
“Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.”
“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”
“Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.”
“Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people; rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half those new people we go on to create are also women - presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on and on...”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“Every woman who enters the sea carries a coffin on her back,” she warned the gathering. “In this world, in the undersea world, we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing between life and death every day.”
These traditional words were often repeated on Jeju, but we all nodded somberly as though hearing them for the first time.
“When we go to the sea, we share the work and the danger,” Mother added. “We harvest together, sort together, and sell together, because the sea itself is communal.”
Source: The Island of Sea Women
“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”
Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures
“Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.”
Source: Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
“Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.”
“Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.”
“Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.”
“Every woman who writes is a survivor.”
“Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.”
“Every woman with her own makeup!”
Source: The New Land
“Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.”
“Every woman's man, and every man's woman.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Julius Caesar (Illustrated)
“Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.”
“Every woman's wardrobe should include black.”
“Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.”
“Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.”
“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
“Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.”
Source: Holy Scripture
“Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.”
Source: The Radical King
“Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.”
“every word and its sound shall generate the same form in the mind of both the reader and its author”
Source: Bahá'u'lláh And The Mission of "God Manifestation"
“Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.”
“Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.”
“Every word comes from the heart.”
“Every word, every brushstroke, every note from an artist should be deliberately so.- Kailin Gow on Efficiency”
“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.”
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
“Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.”
“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.”
“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.”
“Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.”
“Every word I speak is with the intent to relax you, to woo you, to draw you in, to make you love me, so I can weaken you, kill you, and run. That is what I am.”
Source: Broken
“Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.”
“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them.”
“Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them.”
“Every word in God’s Book is there by deliberate design, namely the Holy Ghost. Each sentence in the Scriptures is divinely structured.”
“Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.”
Source: Nietzsche Selections
“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”
Source: Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
“Every word is a negotiation between truth and tenderness. I choose both.”
Source: What Remains Is the Music - A Memoir