Quote by Angela Carter
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man p

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. – Angela Carter

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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. – Angela Carter

Category:
Morals
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That is what Im looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world. – Angela Carter

Category:
Learning
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Her great merit is finding out mine — there is nothing so amiable as discernment. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future –and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. – Albert Camus

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. – W. H. Auden

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression. – Allen J. Boone

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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. – Edward Gibbon

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power

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. – Gene Fowler

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Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Music