Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; its better than motherhood. – Victoria Billings
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. – Marilyn Ferguson
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as “the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.” – Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns
Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse