Great Throughts Treasury

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Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Conversation | Dreams | Feelings | Parents | Child | Old |

Elihu Root

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Mother | System | Old |

William Shakespeare

So fair and foul a day I had not seen.

Heaven | Mother |

William Shakespeare

Revenge has ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.

Parents | Wrong |

William Shakespeare

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

Mother |

William Shakespeare

Since you know you cannot see yourself so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself that of yourself which yet you know not of.

Blush | Doubt | History | Honor | Innocence | Life | Life | Mother | Past | Tyranny | Will |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Honey, I'm Brazilian south. I can spend ten years with broken because of a woman I have not even kissed heart.

Example | Family | Mother |

Elizabeth Gilbert

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.

Family | Man | Marriage | Mother | Peace |

Elizabeth Gilbert

A few weeks ago he said to me, completely ou of nowhere, 'You good friend to me, Liss. Loyal friend.' Then he sighed, stared off into space and added mournfully, ' Not like Sharon.' Who the hell is Sharon? What did she do to him? When I tried asking him about it, he would give me no answer. Acted suddenly like he didn't know who I was even referring to. As if I were the one who'd brought up that thieving hussy Sharon in the first place.)

Family | Mother |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Better | Depression | Dreams | Important | Integrity | Marriage | Men | Mother | Relationship | Sense | Ugly | Talent |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

Mother | Woman |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies.

Care | Happy | Looks | Love | Mother |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back Polo!

Little | Mother | Order | Time | Understand |

Ellen Goodman

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

Better | Parents |

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.

Age | Children | Future | God | Parents | Rule | Will | God | Afraid |

Ellen Goodman

As for keeping the attack dogs from nibbling away your courage? My theory, after decades in this business, is that you only give a few people the right to make you feel rotten. You have a handful of chits to give out, penuriously, to those you trust and respect. You don't give them to just anyone with an e-mail address and an epithet.

Battle | Children | Opposition | Parents | Time |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

Love | Man | Mother | Wife | Will |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Recorded history starts with a patriarchal revolution. Let it continue with the matriarchal counterrevolution that is the only hope for the survival of the human race.

Accident | Error | Evidence | Man | Mother |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my reign, that I have reigned with your loves.

Death | Mother |