“As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.” ThinkingMenWellsSaidCausesDemocracyHe ManSafePressureComplainingAbsurdityHostilityPatentsNothing New Book:The Landmark Thucydides Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women, that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.” PeopleWantSaidMotherCareersHavensFemalePressureFocusedDrivenSelfish Author:Jennifer Aniston