Lillie Blake Quotes & Sayings

If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him. — Lillie Devereux Blake

It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart. — Lillie Devereux Blake

So, do you clean, too?"
"Hell, no!.. I'm gay ... not a damn housewife!"
Everybody laughed.
(The Tin Star) — J.L. Langley

I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance. — Lillie Devereux Blake

People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles. — Lillie Devereux Blake

Horsemanship should be fun. By learning how to control your horse in any situation, your confidence will greatly increase. When you're confident, you can relax and enjoy your partnership. — Clinton Anderson

We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece. — Simon McBurney

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. — Frederick Douglass

I don't understand beauty. — Douglas Coupland

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options. — Suze Orman

All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in government, destruction in society etc. — Sunday Adelaja

The most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart. — Lillie Devereux Blake

We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects. — Lillie Devereux Blake

I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you. — D.J. MacHale

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate. — Lillie Devereux Blake

Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea? — Leonardo Da Vinci