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| ffd454f | What is a princess, and what is a queen? Why is the princess often a pejorative description of a certain type of woman, and the word queen hardly ever applied to women at all? A princess is a girl who knows that she will get there, who is on her way perhaps but is not yet there. She has power but she does not yet wield it responsibly. She is indulgent and frivolous. She cries but not yet noble tears. She stomps her feet and does not know ho.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| dfed68b | I atone in my heart for the mistakes I have made: the recklessness and irresponsibility, the laziness and dishonesty, the harm I have caused to myself or others. I pray for those who I may have hurt, and ask that they be healed of any pain I might have caused them. I vow to be a better person now, that I might rise where before I had fallen, and shine where I had dwelled in darkness. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| e304237 | I have a license," says a voice behind us. I turn to find 17C scrolling through pictures on his camera, standing in the front yard like a deep-rooted tree, like he's been there for years. Somehow, that black eye only makes him more desirable. "And you are . . . ?" asks Moses. A) Perfect B) The god of Devastating Attractiveness C) A flawless specimen, created in a lab by mad scientists in an effort to toy with the heart of Mary Iris Malone D.. | David Arnold | ||
| 2f45c1b | Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be "beautiful" to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both "beautiful" and "sexual" constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention." | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexual-violence sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 0020224 | Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industr.. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 3a0ffc6 | Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good. | body-image self-esteem self-image society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 8587131 | Every woman is wired differently. Some women's nerves branch more in the vagina; other women's nerves branch more in the clitoris. Some branch a great deal in the perineum, or at the mouth of the cervix. That accounts for some of the differences in female sexual response. | vagina | Naomi Wolf | |
| 7817470 | Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class--or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language. | Francine Prose | ||
| b5c886a | It is never easier to understand the mind of a bomb-wielding anarchist than when standing amid a crush of those ladies and gentlemen who have the money and temerity to style themselves "New York Society." | Caleb Carr | ||
| a394dee | There's nothing as scary as the future. | John Irving | ||
| c246605 | In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? | reading school | John Irving | |
| 1c98430 | We don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire-we tend to think if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are. | John Irving | ||
| b587df6 | She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been. | Susan Minot | ||
| ee550bc | If she pardons people because she loves them, someday someone that she loves will betray her and all of Attolia with her. A queen must make sacrifices for the common good. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 3d86084 | You will make the boy Thief king?" he said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for the loss of a hand," said the Mede, close to snarling. "I will have my sovereignty," said Attolia thinly. "Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make," spat Nahuseresh. Then he remembered Attolia's flattery earlier that morning. "Or do I insult your lover?" he asked. "Not a lover," said Attolia. "Merely my ch.. | mede | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 4963275 | A natural! A natural! | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 48facb5 | These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. | intertwined invasion monopoly secrecy secretive shadowy | Michel Faber | |
| 037439e | The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. | Michel Faber | ||
| 3edc895 | There are psychologists who think that consciousness accompanies brain processes and is determined by them but doesn't itself exert any influence on them. Something like the reflection of a tree in water; it couldn't exist without the tree, but it doesn't in any way affect he tree. I think it's all stuff and nonsense to say that there can be love without passion; when people say love can endure after passion is dead they're talking of somet.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| c4fb265 | In love one should exercise economy of intercourse. None of us can love for ever. Love will be stronger and will last longer if there are impediments of its gratification. If a lover is prevented from enjoying his love by absence, difficulty of access, or by the caprice or coldness of his beloved, he can find a little consolation in the thought that when his wishes are fulfilled his delight will be intense. But love being what it is, should.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 8ee8539 | People don't want reasons to do what they'd like to. They want excuses. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| dc5ecd6 | Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen. | love magic will | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 9f54eb7 | She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 01939a7 | The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. - Vida Winters Page 268 | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 551eaa1 | The past is relevant only as data. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 8b04cb3 | I am Welcomed in the Home of Ravens and Other Scavengers in the Wake of Warriors," Ringil recited for him, hollowly. "I am Friend to Carrion Crows and Wolves. I am Carry Me and Kill with Me, and Die with Me Where the Road Ends. I am not the Honeyed Promise of Length of Life in Years to Come, I am the Iron Promise of Never Being a Slave." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 5ff576d | No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. | Irving Stone | ||
| 3ecd980 | Who loves -- lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread. | Irving Stone | ||
| 8b1eca8 | Artists thrive on suffering. | Irving Stone | ||
| 975bd79 | God wills our liberation, our exodus from Egypt. God wills our reconciliation, our return from exile. God wills our enlightenment, our seeing. God wills our forgiveness, our release from sin and guilt. God wills that we see ourselves as God's beloved. God wills our resurrection, our passage from death to life. God wills for us food and drink that satisfy our hunger and thirst. God wills, comprehensively, our well-being--not just my well-bei.. | god healing reconciliation relationship salvation | Marcus J. Borg | |
| f87fc4c | Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose--to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this med.. | Jim Carroll | ||
| 70a5944 | I want to talk. I talk to everybody, and it pisses me off when they interpret to talk back. I sometimes think of offering money to friends to buy their turn in a conversation. | Jim Carroll | ||
| 911cf85 | I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory. | humor vocabulary | Jack Vance | |
| 876fbfc | Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined with our silver sails, our demon-haunted sails, our hundred-league masts as fine as threads, as fine as silver needles sewing the threads of starlight, embroidering the stars on black velvet, wet with the winds of Time that go racing by. The bone in her teeth! The spume, the fly.. | hethor photon-storms star-sailing | Gene Wolfe | |
| ce8aa22 | When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| b3a736f | What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of a truth less richly represented by the original facts? | Edward St. Aubyn | ||
| f66abd2 | In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right. | Edward St. Aubyn | ||
| 747bf3d | You can only give things up once they start to let you down. | Edward St. Aubyn | ||
| 15d25b3 | Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. | reading | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| 169224a | It is true she liked him most when he wasn't there, but then she usually liked everybody most when they weren't there. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| e646810 | What a happy woman I am living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them! Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and I don't know what besides, and would rend the air with their shrieks if condemned to such a life. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find my happiness so easily. I believe I should always be good if the sun always shone, and.. | gardens nature simple-pleasures | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| fb93930 | It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace. This dichotomy is not an invention of the twentieth century, yet it is in this century that the most striking examples of the phenomena have appeared. Never before has man pursued global harmony more vocally while amassing stockpiles of weapons so devastating in their effect. The second.. | Alan Moore | ||
| dec179c | You've got to be responsible for your own happiness - you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 5597096 | Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--it's not useful--to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it. [p. 69] | Julian Barnes |