{"quotes":[{"text":"My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: 'Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["clichés","constancy","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","firmness","frailty","gender","hypocrisy","inequality","men","misogyny","morality","preconceptions","prejudice","sin","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","strength-of-character","vice","virtue","women"],"id":85147,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.'.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["constancy","love","poetry","sacrifice"],"id":90068,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["constancy","everlasting-love","love"],"id":107986,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.'Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["books","clichés","constancy","double-standards","education","feminism","gender","inequality","love","men","misogyny","opportunities","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":148136,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination.","author":"Val Uchendu","tags":["constancy","creative-process","creativity","creativity","success"],"id":151829,"author_id":"Val+Uchendu"},{"text":"While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.","author":"Alan Lightman","tags":["constancy","time"],"id":192444,"author_id":"Alan+Lightman"},{"text":"Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.","author":"Jonathan Gash","tags":["ancient-egypt","ancient-egyptians","cats","constancy","decay","fertilizer","mummified"],"id":196038,"author_id":"Jonathan+Gash"},{"text":"Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of. ","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["beautiful","constancy","love","poetic","romantic"],"id":204837,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be t.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["constancy","love","poetry","sacrifice"],"id":301675,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the constellations slide across the sky. It’s comforting to know that they’ll show up, however bad the day has been, however crook things get. That used to help in France. It put things into perspective—the stars had been around since before there were people. They just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that’s fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening. Summer, winter, storm, fine weather. People can rely on it.","author":"M.L. Stedman","tags":["constancy","life-philosophy","stars"],"id":326985,"author_id":"M.L.+Stedman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}