Isabel Allende on women

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

The written word is an act of human solidarity. I write so that people will love each other more.

Jealousy. The person who hasn’t felt it cannot know how much it hurts, or imagine the madness committed in its name. (p368)

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Men

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

• Beauty