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#1

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

tags: life, words

7833 likes

#2

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women

3782 likes

#3

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: women

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#4

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

3382 likes

#5

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr

tags: feminism, power, women

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#6

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women

2888 likes

#7

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women

2342 likes

#8

“Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

tags: abuse, bad-parenting, beating, inspirational-quotes, jonathan-anthony-burkett, kids, lesson-in-life, mistreatment, neglected-but-undefeated, parenthood, parenting, treatment

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#9

“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were entirely transactional: 'We're out of milk again.' (I'll get some today.) 'I need this ironed properly.' (I'll do that today.) 'How hard is it to buy milk?' (Silence.) 'You forgot to call the plumber.' (Sigh.) 'Goddammit, put on your coat, right now, and go out and get some goddamn milk. Now.' These messages and orders brought to you by my father, a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: abuse, abusive, abusive-relationship, abusive-relationships, bad-parenting, broken-home, childhood, childhood-memories, communication, depression, divorce, family, father, fight, fighting, fights, heartbreak, love, love-lost, mother, parenthood, parents, parents-and-children, relationship, sexism, silence

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#10

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#11

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#12

“I cannot go to school today"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox.

And there's one more - that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue,
It might be the instamatic flu.

I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke.
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in.

My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My toes are cold, my toes are numb,

I have a sliver in my thumb.

My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,

There's a hole inside my ear.

I have a hangnail, and my heart is ...
What? What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is .............. Saturday?

G'bye, I'm going out to play!”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: children, funny, poem

2988 likes

#13

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: children, hope, religion

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#14

“تحبین الأطفال ؟.. برافو .. لكنھم طبعًا ھؤلاء الأطفال الذين يظھرون على علب الألبان الصناعیة .. لو استطعت أن تحبي طفلاً قذرًا فقیرًا مبلل الثیاب يتزاحم الذباب والمخاط حول وجھه فأنا أقر لك بأنك أنثى كاملة..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

tags: children, love, women

1104 likes

#15

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion

1508 likes

#16

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

tags: childhood, children, innocence, youth

1137 likes

#17

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
― Emilie Buchwald

tags: children, parenting, reading

678 likes

#18

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
― Fred Rogers

tags: children, heroes, heroism

768 likes

#19

“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”
― Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes

tags: night, snakes

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#20

“i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

tags: absence, alone, breakup, broken, day, felt, forgive, gone, her, i, i-love-you, in, it, know, like, loneliness, lonely, mirror, miss, mouth, need, no, one, run, sad, separated, sorry, teeth, the, they, to, up, waking, want, was, were, with, wouldn-t, you, your

1048 likes

#21

“Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.”
― Jesse Ventura

tags: fat, glands, humor

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#22

“There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.”
― Faraaz Kazi

tags: family, home, homecoming, homesickness, parents, parents-and-children

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#23

“When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company for a while.”
― Erri De Luca, God's Mountain

tags: homesickness

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#24

“I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.”
― Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel

tags: emotions, feelings, homesickness, sadness

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#25

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: lonely, love

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#26

“Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.”
― Jean Webster

tags: loneliness, lonely, out-of-place, outcast, outsider

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#27

“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”
― Jackson Pearce, Fathomless

tags: beautiful, emotions, emptiness, empty, fathomless, jackson-pearce, life, loneliness, lonely, ocean, pain, painful, quotes, sadness

282 likes

#28

“Eventually, we all end up alone.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

tags: alone, life, lonely

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#29

“even
in the loneliest moments

i have been there
for myself.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: inspirational, loneliness, lonely, love-yourself, poetry, poetry-quotes, self-empowerment, self-esteem, self-help

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