One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.
It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.
I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy. Raphael’s eyebrows furrowed. “My mother’s approval isn’t necessary. ” Aha. “Does she know that?
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren. ” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.