Quotes for All
When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other … Read more
Many women hear the word \”feminine\” and feel like it’s a noose around their neck. \”Don’t hold me to a mode of behavior because I’m a woman and you think this is how a woman should act,\” kind of thing. Elizabeth Lesser
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose Elena Ferrante
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it … Read more
Four be the things I’d have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. Dorothy Parker
Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. Dorothy Parker
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented … Read more
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet. Cynthia Heimel
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. Clinton D. McKinnon
I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower…There’s not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That’s how capitalism works. Cesar Chavez