top of page
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West

"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

Standard 
 Customized
"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

Exlpore more Time quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

Explore more quotes by Jessamyn West

Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
Quote_1.png
Jessamyn West
"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
bottom of page