Distaff Quotes

#1. Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me.

Edward Taylor

#2. If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

J.G. Holland

#3. When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

Arcangela Tarabotti

#4. A congeries of motives prevents us from blowing up our spinning mills and reviving the distaff. Gandhi had a try at this sort of revolution: he was as simple-minded as a child trying to empty the sea on to the sand with the aid of a tea-cup.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#5. (Those women whom the distaff
no longer claims
nor spun cloth)
driven made,
mad,
mad
by Bacchus.

Hilda Doolittle

#6. Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

Lord Byron

#7. A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

J.G. Holland

#9. Discover the inner beauty and wonder within your heart. When you open then follow your Heart your life will become truly wonderful.

Steven Redhead

#10. You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.

Allie Brosh

#11. God, I am hurt, and my mind is wounded, and it needs to be healed by forgetting the offense. I give thee permission to heal my mind so that I no longer remember the incident. Help me to see this person as you see him. Help me only consider his positive traits. Help me to see him as you see him.

Kirk Wilkinson

#12. Young people who begin drinking before age fifteen are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at twenty-one.

Joe Bruzzese

#13. Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

Catherine Deneuve

#14. Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#15. I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

Ellen Ullman

#16. Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Laurence Sterne

#17. There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

Ani DiFranco

#18. We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Barack Obama

#19. We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.

Frances Hardinge

#20. I'm better than Olivier.

Robert Duvall

#21. None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

Anita Borg