You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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Jodi Picoult
As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's...
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Mildred D. Taylor
Men can be relentless, " she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.
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Rae Carson
There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.
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Rae Carson
This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
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Frances Hardinge
More Quotes By Mary Douglas
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
