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Quotes About Support

The theatre of all my actions is fallen, said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead; and they are fortunate who get a theatre where the audience demands their best.
~ George Eliot
But there is no tyranny more complete than that which a self-centred negative nature exercises over a morbidly sensitive nature perpetually craving sympathy and support.
~ George Eliot
Do not think of me sorrowfully on your wedding-day. I have remembered your words—that I may live to be one of the best of women, who make others glad that they were born. I do not yet see how that can be, but you know better than I. If it ever comes true, it will be because you helped me. I only thought of myself, and I made you grieve. It hurts me now to think of your grief. You must not grieve any more for me. It is better—it shall be better with me because I have known you.
~ George Eliot
She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before—a fountain of friendship towards men—a
~ George Eliot
What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
~ George Eliot
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to others?
~ George Eliot
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
~ George Eliot
What are we here for if not to make life easier for each other?
~ George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
~ George Eliot
None knows the weight of another's burthen.
~ George Herbert
Framing 102 is about how reflexivity can be used for the good, at least for the good of most people, most living things, and for the beauty and bounty of the physical world that supports all life.
~ George Lakoff
When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, effort, and excellence. This has long been the philosophy at the Trump Organization. At my father's company, there are more female than male executives. Women are paid equally for the work that we do, and when a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out.
~ Ivanka Trump
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
~ William Cobbett
Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
~ Mark Pryor
Some women are great, and you wouldn't have been able to get to where you are without them, and others are doing what they can to undermine you.
~ Amy Heckerling
I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.
~ Lubna Olayan
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.
~ Claire Danes
Evangelical women are also large consumers of evangelical media and ministries, and their support of these organizations is crucial. Should they shun both Trump and the predominately male evangelical leadership, it may have a ripple effect in these organizations' fundraising abilities and their ministerial efforts.
~ Anthea Butler
Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.
~ Lubna Olayan
Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
~ Jose Marti
No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.
~ Cokie Roberts
I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
~ Jennifer Beals
I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.
~ Laurie Holden