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| d3ae1b3 | Men do oppress women. People are hurt by rigid sexist role patterns. These two realities coexist. Male oppression of women cannot be excused by the recognition that there are ways men are hurt by rigid sexist roles. Feminist activists should acknowledge that hurt, and work to change it--it exists. It does not erase or lessen male responsibility for supporting and perpetuating their power under patriarchy to exploit and oppress women in a ma.. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 709e220 | Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 053e3b3 | We knew that there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist. | Bell Hooks | ||
| cd104de | Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied. | desire heart love object partner relationship satisfaction | Bell Hooks | |
| f2364d5 | Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world. | bell hooks | ||
| eb82e10 | As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being w.. | confrontation discussion healing-shame honesty hurting hurting-heart love pain responsibility self-love wounded woundedness wounds wounds-to-the-heart | bell hooks | |
| f70b9d1 | They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains. | greed money pride relationships society | Richard Kadrey | |
| d3370bf | Down here in the pain, I don't have to know. I just note the question and move on. Answers are rare and come in their own time but hangovers are reliable and never in short supply. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 4cbf37c | I guarantee you I'm not going to forget your voice. We're going to run into each other down the road sometime, and when we do I'm going to pop you apart one rivet at a time." "There's the monster. Hello, monster." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 4d9465d | I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way. | erotic-romance | Lisa Renee Jones | |
| 3428947 | Out of sight, out of mind. It's how i cope. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 1aece47 | Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment. | John Berger | ||
| dbad46e | So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed. | John Berger | ||
| 721d87f | At some point when tending someone you love who is in pain, you reach the edge of a lake, and you look at each other with such joy at the stillness. [Letter unsent] | John Berger | ||
| 94cb975 | I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars. | hierarchies individuality institution orphan solidarity subversion | John Berger | |
| dff8c51 | Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8e82aa6 | It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 77f2173 | It was not an end, it was a beginning. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| eda39f9 | You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1273f40 | Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 43a09ae | Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 796e9ed | She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg understood words. "My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there was no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it. Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be ab.. | family fear love | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| f3f9e00 | But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d5f8d17 | We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. | revelation zeal zealous | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 9e8959c | Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| aa5d1d5 | Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth. | truth | Tanya Huff | |
| 5c08edd | What do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?' 'I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but different periods of creation, so that it took many thousands --- or hundreds of thousands of years --- to create. It does not demean God; it simply gives Him more time to build this extraordinary world.' 'And the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaur.. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 6d3064f | She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey, smooth and sweet and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes-and all the while remain as still as the center of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract to themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and wom.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 44bdcda | And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and the loss seemed to him more desirable than a prosaic renunciation of both. For he had renounced things all his life. But never once had he possessed and lost. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 27fbe7f | Walking soothes. There is a healing power in walking. The regular placement of one foot in front of the other while at the same time rowing rhythmically with the arms, the rising rate of respiration, the slight stimulation of the pulse, the actions required of eye and ear for determining direction and maintaining balance, the feeling of the passing air brushing against the skin -- all these are events that mass about the body and mind in a .. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 4bef2e2 | And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 535dedf | Siempre habia creido que era del mundo en general de lo que tenia que apartarse, pero ahora lo veia claro no se trataba del mundo, si no de los seres humanos. Al parecer, en el mundo, en el mundo sin hombres, la vida era soportable | patrick-süskind perfume suspense the-story-of-a-murderer | Patrick Süskind | |
| a718011 | ld~ l`rby bn syn wHdh njd qryn@ `l~ Tq@ ltHwr lHjry, Gyr 'nh bdwrh l ystTy` 'n yqwl ln mn 'yn tt't~ Tqth wl lmdh ttbd~ bTryq@ mHdd@, blnsb@ l~ lSWadaf. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 362a463 | Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| cb9b6e8 | A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. | E.M. Forster | ||
| b32120a | A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 408acf2 | In a British accent, he tells me his name is Dr.Nawaz, and suddenly I want to be away from this man, because I don't think I can bear what he has come to tell me. He says the boy had cut himself deeply and had lost a great deal of blood and my mouth begins to mutter that prayer again: They had to transfuse several units of red cells- Twice, they had to revive him- namaz, zakat. They would have lost him if his heart hadn't been young an.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d4648a7 | I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d40c78f | Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2fef650 | Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fb118ee | Make morning into a key and throw it into the well, go slowly , my lovely moon, go slowly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8afb847 | The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 83add19 | He was a visionary or a fool I have found the line perilously thin myself | visionary | Khaled Hosseini | |
| be33760 | What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind .. | James Hilton |