Marie Gournay Quotes

#1. Ignorance is the mother of presumption

Marie De Gournay

#2. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Marie De Gournay

#3. The most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.

Marie De Gournay

#4. Certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

Marie De Gournay

#5. First, that one had to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes - and then begin to tell their story.

Nina George

#6. Conflict happens. People aren't happy all of the time.

Sara Ramirez

#7. Don't lament over your lost misfortunes. Move on.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Zara: It's just a registry...
Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea?

Cassandra Clare

#9. Whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.

Marie De Gournay

#10. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#11. The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.

Marie De Gournay

#12. I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

Yara Shahidi

#13. Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

Marie De Gournay

#14. You need the confidence to fail in order to take risks in your work

Jessica Walsh

#15. If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

Jacque Fresco

#16. The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

Alexander Shulgin

#17. In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

Allison Williams

#18. I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

Robert Boyle