Bluestocking Women Quotes & Sayings

It is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death. — Michael Scott

Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically. — Pankaj Mishra

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps. — Colleen McCullough

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. — Alice James

...for my greatest skill has been to want but little. — Henry David Thoreau

I'd rather DIE than go to heaven. — Brendon Small

EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY. — Rob Dyrdek

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges? — Romeo Dallaire

With respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to 1. dance one day & draw another. from 1. to 2. draw on the day you dance, and write a letter next day. from 3. to 4. read French. from 4. to 5. exercise ... — Thomas Jefferson

I dream about food. — Tia Mowry

She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this life, my father bought a pair of blue silk stockings for me the day we received my letter of acceptance. That evening and the next, father and I dined alone. — Gwenn Wright

The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess. — Eugene Wigner

Film analysis enables us to recognize how the filmmakers have their magic on us, how all the constituent elements of the film have combined to create that magic. Rather than rob us of the pleasures of watching films, this approach affords us the even greater pleasure of deep engagement — Jon Lewis

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. — Bill Gates