Jack London

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Maya Angelou

A woman should have enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to.

A woman should have something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour.

A woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind.

A woman should have a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to retelling it in her old age.

A woman should have a screwdriver, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra.

A woman should have one friend who always makes her laugh, and one who lets her cry.

A woman should have a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in her family.

A woman should have eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a recipe for a meal, that will make her guests feel honored.

A woman should have a feeling of control over her destiny.

Every woman should know how to fall in love without losing herself.

Every woman should know how to quit a job, break up with a lover, and confront a friend without ruining the friendship.

Every woman should know when to try harder... and when to walk away.

Every woman should know that she can't change the length of her calves, the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents.

Every woman should know that her childhood may not have been perfect... but its over.

Every woman should know what she would and wouldn't do for love or more.

Every woman should know how to live alone.... even if she doesn't like it.

Every woman should know whom she can trust, whom she can't, and why she shouldn't take it personally.

Every woman should know where to go... be it to her best friend's kitchen table, or a charming inn in the woods when her soul needs soothing.

Every woman should know what she can and can't accomplish in a day, a month, a year.

T.S. Eliot

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

Chuck Palahniuk

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

Christopher Morley

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

Gail Devers

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

Also,

Irony pisses me off. I enjoy it to a degree, but not when it makes guest appearances into my love life.

However, knowing I was previously correct in my predictions and all it took was a little bit of time to pass to make my prognosis true makes me pretty happy.

"Men play the game; women know the score." -- Roger Woddis

More Charles Bukowski

"Trapped"

Don't undress my love
you might find a mannequin;
Don't undress the mannequin
you might find
my love.

Helen Rowland

"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her."

--Helen Rowland

one of many quotes by Sarah Reaves

"Seriously, how are you going to booty-call me when I'm not having sex with you?"

George Bernard Shaw

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in the closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

Classes resume Monday.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
--William Butler Yeats