Canadian Feminist Pioneer Quotes & Sayings

Fuckin' wit a madman in a bad mood
It's like fuckin' wit a mad dog that wasn't fed food — D.M.X.

She fluttered her fan. "And do you know what they say of women of a certain age, what they want above all?"
Desire simmered in him at her not quite smile. "Do tell."
"To be rid of you, Hastings. So that they don't have to waste what remains of their precious few years suffering your lecherous looks."
"If I stopped looking at you lecherously, you'd miss it."
"Why don't we test that hypothesis? You stop and I'll tell you after ten years or so whether I miss it."
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He rose and bowed slightly. "You wouldn't last two weeks, Miss Fitzhugh. — Sherry Thomas

Never complain, never explain, get the thing done and let them howl. — Nellie L. McClung

I thought you lot brought a buildin' down on 'is 'ead."
"We did," Sam replied before she could. "I don't think it took. — Kady Cross

Hunger limits you because you are constantly thinking about getting food, keeping the food if you do get your hands on some, and not knowing when you are going to eat next. — Saroo Brierley

And I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. — Louisa May Alcott

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life. — Stefan Kanfer

The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide. — Henri Nouwen

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers - ambition and indigestion. — Herman Melville

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble. — Robert J. Shiller

Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants him or she doesn't. — Chloe Thurlow

What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed. — Theodore L. Cuyler