Today is the birthday of the following people:
Lucy Stone (1818 - 1893):
“The last speaker alluded to
this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years
to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman... I was
disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being—every
employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and
the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything,
disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to
deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no
longer.”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980):
“Ideas come from everything.”
and
“Give them pleasure. The same
pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
and
“Drama is life with the dull
parts left out.”
Tom Perrotta (1961 - ):
“He made me think of all the
books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
and
“After all, what was adult life
but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in
line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them
at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some
sort of choice.”
Valerie Plame (1963 - ):
“Despite the obvious fault in
the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best
self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions
are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with
grace and humor whenever possible.”
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