“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
― Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: First President and Founder of Theturkish Republic
― Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: First President and Founder of Theturkish Republic
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Chance
― Chance
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