Victorian Women Rights Colonial Quotes & Sayings

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there. — George Herbert

If everyone could almost die, the world would be a happier, more thankful place. — Terry Lynn Johnson

Overrated is order. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

How about this, have you ever farted so hard you shivered? — Bill Engvall

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star. — Brian Cox

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God."
-Review of Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridegrooms — Aleister Crowley

We fit our sphere as a Chinese woman's foot fits her shoe, exactly, as though God had made both - and yet He knows nothing of either. In some of us the shaping to our end has been quite completed. The parts we are not to use have been quite atrophied and have even dropped ott, but in others, and we are not less to be pitied, they have been weakened and left. We wear the bandages, but out limbs have not grown to them, we know that we are compressed, and chafe against them. — Olive Schreiner

You see, my father was short, and my mother was short too. So was my grandparents, and my great grandparents - I come from a long lineage of short men and women - not one of us was above five feet. We were as tall as the Chinese. I know that sounded racist, but that will only be true if I was tall, so you see, being short has its own privileges. — Nick Nwaogu

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse. — Thomas More

Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares. — Mike Nichols

The power of healing is within you. All you need to do is give your body what it needs and remove what is poisoning it. You can restore your own health by what you do -- not by the pills you take, but by how you choose to live. — Terry Wahls

post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven asks that question, then it asks another: What would you then try — Anonymous

Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous. — Marty Rubin

When a woman is interested in you, she'll let you know; if not, there's no aftershave, gift, or line you can spin to make her change her mind. — David Mitchell