“Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.” MenWritingLittlesHouseWinningCreativityToo MuchNiceHonestHonestyEssentialsStandardsAngelPaidOriginalsMalesGhostShouldersBeing HonestBeing NiceSay AnythingVirginiaHeedWoolf Author:Erica Jong
“I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.” PeopleWritingBelieveMeanEndsStoriesSpiritGuyEvilStrongI BelieveNiceHorrorStandardsPhilosophicalRottenNice PeopleHorror StoriesSlugs Author:Stephen King
“The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude.” IfsThinkingNeedsTryingPersonsKidsMoralGrowing UpNiceGrowingDogLike YouStandardsThoughtfulRudeNice Person Author:Julianne Hough
“What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.” IfsThinkingLooksLittlesLongImportantJobsEvilNationsBitsTakenNiceInfluenceSeriousLittle BitStandardsDevilRedTinySubstanceAttractiveHelpfulFlashBeing NiceTailsSalesmanGreat WomenEvil Things Author:Albert Brooks
“The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” NiceStandardsAvailableNice ThingsCompletion Author:C. Northcote Parkinson
“I mean, my wife is always like - I don't write lyrics. So I couldn't, like, really technically write a song for anyone. I could write a very nice instrumental. So she always sort of gives me a hard time because it's just such a ridiculously impossible standard to live up to, that your step-dad wrote that song for your mom.” GivingWritingMeanHardSongStepsNiceWifeImpossibleMomDadStandardsGive MeMy WifeHard TimesVery NiceYour MomStep Dad Author:Mark Ronson