Marie Pitt quotes

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.
-- Marie Pitt

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.