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11/19/2024 “THE LADIES HAVE SPOKEN”   2 comments

Helen Rowland

Almost everyone loves quoting experts about everything and no different. Today’s post is exclusively and completely written by women with their opinions on Men, Women, and Marriage. It should be interesting.

ON WOMEN

  • “A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt 1981
  • ” I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” Mary Wollstonecraft 1792
  • In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” Margaret Thatcher 1970

ON MEN

  • ” Man for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” Margaret Fuller 1844
  • “We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.” Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1905
  • “Fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.” Amelia E. Barr 1904

ON LOVE & ROMANCE

  • “I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It’s just as much a refuge for women married to brutal man as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.” Susan B. Anthony 1898
  • “A husband is what is left of the lover, after the nerve has been extracted.” Helen Rowland
  • ” I married beneath me, all women do.” Nancy Astor 1981
Louisa May Alcott

I’d like to finish this post with a quote from Louisa May Alcott written on April 11, 1868.

“One of the trials of womankind is the fear of being an old maid. To escape this dreadful doom, young girls rushed into matrimony with a recklessness which astonishes the beholder; never pausing to remember that the loss of liberty, happiness, and self-respect is poorly repaid by the barren honor of being called Mrs. instead of Ms.”

Do I agree to all of the material I just posted, mostly! Many of these quotes were from a different time but the facts of marriage and men and women hasn’t changed all that much in any case. At the time some of these quotes were made they carried serious weight to the nation and had a lot to do with women eventually getting the vote.

And they still hope to run everything. LOL

10-26-2013 One Year Anniversary   Leave a comment

I’ll begin celebrating today after posting this blog entry.  When I retired the Anti-Stupidity Blog one year ago I challenged myself to start a new blog and to write for one year, 365 posts, without missing a day and not using graphics, catchy and cutesy headlines or photographs.   It sounded easy at the time but it was anything but. 

I needed a lot of willpower but after the first six months my reserve of motivation was almost exhausted.  I worked through it and today that challenge and goal have been met. 

I’ll start fresh on October 27th (tomorrow) with an better outlook and a return to what some consider normalcy in blogging.  I’ll use the occasional photograph or two in the future but not gratuitously. The majority of these photo’s will be those I’ve taken myself.  I’ll be adding a word or two in addition to the date to indicate the general content of each post.  Since I’ve become somewhat addicted to this style of posting it will continue this way for the foreseeable future. 

I’m looking forward to the next year and I hope you are as well.  Tomorrow will be the start of something a little different but the endless quantities of totally useless information will continue.  The trivia quizzes will return and number of new twists can be expected there.  I’ll continue to comment on celebrities and their unusual activities, other inappropriate humor, and as many dirty and filthy limericks as I can find or create.  I’ll do the occasional book review and anything else that catches my fancy. 

The world is my oyster and I’ll keep searching for those proverbial pearls of wisdom to pass on to you.  Onward and Upward!