{"quotes":[{"text":"As Schulz himself has pointed out, Snoopy is capable of being 'one of the meanest' members of the entire Peanuts cast ... He is lazy, he is a 'chow-hound' without parallel, he is bitingly sarcastic, he is frequently a coward, and he often becomes quite weary of being what he is basically -- a dog. He is, in other words, a fairly drawn caricature for what is probably the typical Christian.","author":"Robert L. Short","tags":["christians","fallibility","frailty","human-nature","snoopy"],"id":36050,"author_id":"Robert+L.+Short"},{"text":"...The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["connection","frailty","weights","wires","wisdom","wisdom-inspirational"],"id":69025,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"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":"When I grow up next year my life will be easy.' Vanity.","author":"Caroline Gerardo","tags":["beauty","frailty","women"],"id":111691,"author_id":"Caroline+Gerardo"},{"text":"After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aging","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","better","bodily","body","change","changes","dead","death","develop","development","die","for-the-better","for-the-worst","frail","frailty","funny","grow","growth","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","old-age","satire","senile","senility","worse","wrinkle","wrinkles"],"id":130305,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.","author":"Erich Maria Remarque","tags":["frailty","strength"],"id":131009,"author_id":"Erich+Maria+Remarque"},{"text":"Alas! In the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["frailty","humanity","humility","leadership","power"],"id":133325,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"You are human and fallible.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["frailty","human"],"id":162039,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen 'Acrobats in a Park' at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["artists","family","frailty","imagination","strength","transient","vulnerable","writing"],"id":169907,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["frailty","human-heart","thought"],"id":177039,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}