Ifs Quote by Mary Blakely Download Open image “If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.” — Mary Blakely ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Knows Periods Periods Solitude Planned Embraced Should Solitude Solitude Courted Woman Know
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology,fate . . . until we can actually… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a week, fifty-two… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal. — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read,… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn,… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image