Quotes About Choice

Feminist' gets misrepresented as a dirty word, echoing throughout the timeline of experiences of activists in the women's movement since the 70's and longer; we've been seen as the radical feminists who want women to leave their husbands, become lesbians, dye their hair green. If wanting a woman to be able to own her own sexuality, to be able to live life with freedom and dignity and find and make her own choices are these things, then yes, we are nasty women - the nastiest around.

Thou art a fool," she murmured instead, "to think a man can serve two masters." She lifted a varvel and let it fall against his armor, smiling. "A splendid fool. Come into my service to stay, be it thy desire.

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something.

I wanted you to choose this. To choose me. But it isn't always possible for two people to want the same thing. I want you, and that will have to be enough for both of us.

I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.

One of the oddest things in life, I think, is the things one remembers. One chooses to remember, I suppose. Something in one must choose.

the madness of exchanging mediocre but safe happiness for great happiness but possible disaster.

I don't have time' means 'It's not a priority.' We always have time for what matters to us.

Fortunately, being mindful of family time—making a commitment to be there physically and mentally and enjoy life while doing so—makes memories possible. We control a lot less about our children's outcomes in life than we think. They are their own people. But one thing parents do shape is whether kids remember their childhoods as happy. Creating a happy home is a conscious choice, as is creating a happy marriage.

you can choose how to spend your 168 hours, and you have more time than you think.

I meant that sometimes we choose partners who, in some ways, remind us of our parents. The good and the bad parts of them.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don't want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Why is everything always my decision? I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else. Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.

You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

Richard has informed me he is shopping for his white picket fence. I'm happy behind my black wrought iron fence. The one with the pointy spikes on top. White never really was my color.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.