“Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.” WayNeedsLooksJobsPastLife IsWomenHurtOver The PastAnger And HurtLook After Yourself Author:Amy Dickinson
“Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.” PeoplePainPastWomenIdentityPast Pain Author:Laura Schlessinger
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?” MenNeedsFirstsHumansMomentsPastRememberWomenChangedStudentsTaughtMarkFeministBonesContributionProfessorsAttemptingAnthropologyCalendarsChanged My LifeOverlookedCambridgeCarvingContribution To Society28 Days Author:Sandi Toksvig
“As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting.” FirstsSoulPastGirlUniverseWomenInterestingKnownCuriousCheeksPretty Girl Book:Remembrance of Things Past Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.” PastNamesWomenBearsLetters Author:Gelett Burgess