Quotes about ma
may moral values
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals. Iris Murdoch
marriage selfish giving
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
magic theatre wonderful
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good. Iris Murdoch
marriage trams
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere. Iris Murdoch
marriage liars self
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. Iris Murdoch
madness schemes protect
The very madness of the scheme protects it. Iris Murdoch
marriage women writing
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. Iris Murdoch
mazes may theory
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT. Imre Lakatos
marriage endurance rewards
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina. Ilka Chase
matter doe nutrition
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't. Ina May Gaskin
magic bottles texture
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
matter today actresses
I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right. Ida Lupino
may wonderful absence
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. Idries Shah
may ifs
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. Idries Shah
march-on-washington people rich
Rich people march on Washington every day. I. F. Stone
make-sense mines
When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense. Hunter Hayes
math hard-times two
Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful. Gregory Maguire
magic stories erode
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure. Gregory Maguire
made seems
The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that. Gloria Stuart
married should
Nobody should get married at 17. Gloria Vanderbilt
masculine-and-feminine circles ideas
The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together. Gloria Steinem
majority public-opinion gaps
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness. Gloria Steinem
masculine-and-feminine class race
I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come. Gloria Steinem
marriage men differences
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man. Gloria Steinem
marriage husband feminism
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters). Gloria Steinem
may violence add
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. Gloria Steinem
males female gender
When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction. Gloria Steinem
matter behave
Behave like everything you do matters. Gloria Steinem
math anxiety may
Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above. Gloria Steinem
marriage men gambling
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. Gloria Steinem
may paganism details
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. Gloria Steinem
marriage witty work
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Gloria Steinem
management being-the-best young
When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best. Geraldine Stutz