“Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.” YearsBelieveSaidTwoHandsAgeI BelievePathTaughtBrotherPeriodsJudgmentFemaleIncreaseMalesContraryBeing TrueInequalityTwo YearsSexismReverseAspireSageAdoptedConfinedExaltedTwo Year OldsPartiality Book:Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray Source: Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray
“All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.” MadeHardFatherGrowing UpGrowingTaughtPeriodsMarriedHarveyMommaDressersMy Momma Author:Steve Harvey
“There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.” Has BeensBookEvilWrittenTaughtPeriodsChinaBotheredTextbooksOrchidsEmpresses Author:Anchee Min
“I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.” LooksMomentsKidsMovingCommunityStreetsTaughtPeriodsRapBrandsTrendsRapper Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and I feel a responsibility to do it - for instance, in this situation, where I'm touring specifically for this period of time. But most writers are not public people. There are a few writers out there who really enjoy it and are good at it, and can both work and do that at the same time, but I'm not one of those people.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLongI CanEnjoyCan DoResponsibilitySituationKnow HowTaughtPeriodsLong TimeInstanceTouringI Can Do It Author:Alice Sebold
“The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.” UseAgeThreeSpeakBoysFiveTaughtPeriodsTwentiesBowsThree ThingsSpeak The TruthPersian Author:Herodotus
“It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.” IfsKnowsWellsChildrenLongHas BeensStatesSpeakSubjectsEmotionalTaughtPeriodsRegardSurprisePainfulViolentIdiotPeculiarDreadConfrontingFinalityIrrevocableBewildermentPainless Author:William Faulkner
“I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.” BeliefStudyTaughtPeriodsBible Study Author:Moby
“We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.” NeedsYearsLongHas BeensFactsCultureParentAnimalTaughtHabitPeriodsDrinkEatingCriticsFleshAgentsEtcMilkGrandparentConditioningBlindedLong Periods Of TimeAdvertisersEating Habits Author:Sharon Gannon
“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.” BodySchoolConsciousnessGrowing UpGrowingTaughtParticularPeriodsFemaleCatholicSensitiveVisibleMissionarySiteAsiaNunRepressedFemale BodyTime Periods Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim