Rajlakshmi O Quotes & Sayings

There is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to the fact that in our competitive, perfectionist culture, in which the price woman are required to pay for freedom still seems to be martyrdom, almost everyone lies about motherhood. Part of that lying is loyalty - I can't let on that my kid is the only one on the playground who can't read or play the piano - and part of it is self-protection, since we've made hyper-motherhood a measure of female success. The preferred answer to the question "How are you?" is always "Fine," and the answer to the question "How are the kids?" is supposed to be "Great!" That's true even if the accurate answers would be "terrible" and "a mess." I think it produces its own kind of desperation, especially for women, who yearn to be emotionally open. — Anna Quindlen

Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can. — A.G. Howard

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high. — Isabelle Adjani

BE LIKE A BULL...DON'T LIKE A DOG....BE — Rahul

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words. — Maggie Stiefvater

There are only two times in your life when you get "pronounced." You get pronounced married and you get pronounced dead. Somewhere there's a cynic saying, "What's the difference? — Mike Dugan

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course. — Clive Barker

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. — Henry Adams

Daisy!" He walked away from the tree, turning her so that she could not avoid looking at him, and used his most severe tone. "A well-behaved young lady does not attempt to dislocate her master's shoulder." She gave him a sorrowful look, and he was tempted to delude himself into thinking she understood, but just at that moment, the damned rodent scampered down the tree, and she tried to take off again. This time he was ready for her. Blinkers might be a good idea. * — Ella Quinn

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. — Man Ray

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in. — Neil Simon

When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.' — Tamsin Greig

Every time the woman turned her head, it was like she was posing for a picture with an Instagram setting that filtered out humility. — Tara Altebrando