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Quotes About Adaptation

There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.
~ Donna Karan
Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."
~ Gloria Steinem
I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.
~ Jane Swisshelm
Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.
~ Jeanne Phillips
That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.
~ Laura Schlessinger
If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.
~ Maddox
Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.
~ Reese Witherspoon
Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.
~ Shayne Ward
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
~ Susan Faludi
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.
~ Susan Faludi
Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.
~ Noorilhuda, Catharsis
Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be yourself....and make the world adjust!
~ Germany Kent
ANTHONY: Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way
~ Cambria Hebert, #Hater
Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.
~ Germany Kent
A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I'm ready for you. Dear future, I'm coming for you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you look up and don't see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.
~ Keri Hulme
Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.
~ Nikki Rowe
A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo