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09887f1 I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. empowerment flaws freedom gender identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women Charlotte Brontë
5c65487 I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity love men realism romance self-awareness self-determination women Charlotte Brontë
92222c9 If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it? image self-image Jodi Picoult
c0cd1f7 "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself." empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women Charlotte Brontë
d9c5d4f She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. image love relationships sex Milan Kundera
d203170 "Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be "cool." Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?" genuineness hip image Bill Watterson
04b7d3c Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so. image love superficiality Jack London
ad7788f With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? books breach bright bullying burning conform constitution cowardice creativity critics different dread education equality examiners fliers free grabbers happiness image imagination imaginative-creators intellectual intelligence judge judgment jumpers knowers mind moutains racers rights runners school snatchers swimmers target tinkerers torture unfamiliar weapons Ray Bradbury
08706a4 Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God. conceptualizing god image life Marcus J. Borg
d611957 "Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were there because the film in no way interrogates "whiteness." These folks left the film saying it was "amazing," "marvellous," incredibly funny," worthy of statements like, "Didn't you just love it?" And no, I didn't love it. For in many ways the film was a graphic documentary portrait of the way in which colonized black people (in this case black gay brothers, some of whom were drag queens) worship at the throne of whiteness, even when such worship demands that we live in perpetual self-hate, steal, go hungry, and even die in its pursuit. The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that seduces us away from ourselves, that negates that there is beauty to be found in any form of blackness that is not imitation whiteness." -- gender-identity image propaganda race representation sexuality bell hooks
c4ea890 You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble. image image-about-yourself projection self-esteem self-image Victoria Holt
7c4d647 We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . . image George Eliot
4dc40a3 Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ's image, and to cause you to love Him...even more! christian faith fire god image life love pure realize shape Elizabeth George
49d5c2d Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times. image impression military Barbara W. Tuchman
cff8628 Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand--they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor. heroes image Dennis Lehane
d00b666 I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but it is Morrie's softness that draws me, and because he doesn't look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax. close identity image kid music soft tough windows Mitch Albom
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