The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Category Archive: September 27
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Young men keep telling me they don’t ‘have it all’ either. And they may have a point. But if you define ‘having it all’ as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I’d say this. When a man tells his coworkers he’s going to have a child, no one asks him how he’ll manage or if he’ll be coming back to work.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl’s skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You’ve got this Ph.D. and you’re worrying, ‘Am I skinny enough?’