Pretty Privilege Quotes

#1. There are boys who will make you cry, and then there are boys who are worth spending your fabulous energy on.

Clifford Riley

#2. I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it.

Reagan Gomez-Preston

#3. It's my place to stand beside you, and support you, and yes, just fucking look pretty on your arm sometimes. It's my right, my duty, and my privilege, Eva, just as it's yours in reverse.

Sylvia Day

#4. Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ...

June Jordan

#6. Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Caroline Shaw

#7. I think there are some players born to play ball.

Joe DiMaggio

#8. Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think i could ever do that.

Jo Nesbo

#9. Sometimes I fall back pretty hard on the butterflies and the flowers. What a privilege to have been around for this.

Wendell Berry

#10. I have a friend who is a funny cook. Her food tastes funny and smells funny

Haresh Daswani

#11. Noah, she breathed out, unknowingly
fulfilling one of my many fantasies involving Echo

Katie McGarry

#12. Marriage is a matter for common sense."
"But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?"
"No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Nancy Gibbs

#14. For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

Lord Byron

#15. I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don't even realize that while you can walk around with clear lungs, other people are wearing oxygen masks just to survive.

Randa Abdel-Fattah