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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4b2580 | the woods, when they give at all, give unstintedly, and hold nothing back from their true worshippers. We must go to them lovingly, humbly, patiently, watchfully, and we shall learn what poignant loveliness lurks in the wild places and silent intervales, lying under starshine and sunset, what cadences of unearthly music are harped on aged pine boughs or crooned in copses of fir, what delicate savours exhale from mosses and ferns in sunny co.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 60109ac | A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her. | sense-of-humor | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 4113063 | In your marriage, be the first to "seek peace and pursue it" (1 Peter 3:11)." -- | Emerson Eggerichs | ||
| faca2f4 | I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful. | roofs rooftops | Enid Blyton | |
| 2d9c75b | When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 0d85993 | By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for the personification of everyone's desire. | masculinity objectification | bell hooks | |
| 4875050 | This is a patriarchal truism that most people in our society want to deny. Whenever women thinkers, especially advocates of feminism, speak about the widespread problem of male violence, folks are eager to stand up and make the point that most men are not violent. They refuse to acknowledge that masses of boys and men have been programmed from birth on to believe that at some point they must be violent, whether psychologically or physically.. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 973d7cf | As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, "Naked Without Shame," about black women's bodies and politics, "Marked by shame, projected as inherent and therefore precluding any possibility of innocence, the black female body was beyond redemption." She points out that since the time of U.S. slavery, men have benefited from positioning black women as naturally promiscuous because it absolves them of guilt when they sexually assault and rape women o.. | misogyny mysogynoir racism virginity | Jessica Valenti | |
| d444f0a | Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. | fear-of-love feminism feminist intimacy love manhood masculinity men motherhood | bell hooks | |
| 5a3c5cd | Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love; most folks do not believe that a couple can have love in a relationship if there is no sex. | love men relationships | Bell Hooks | |
| f431fad | Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 667bd57 | Often, men who would never think of lying in the workplace lie constantly in intimate relationships. This seems to be especially the case for heterosexual men who see women as gullible. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 98adf09 | All the myths and stereotypes used to characterize black womanhood have their roots in negative anti-woman mythology. Yet they form the basis of most critical inquiry into the nature of black female experience. Many people have difficulty appreciating black women as we are because of eagerness to impose an identity upon us based on any number of negative stereotypes. Widespread efforts to continue devaluation of black womanhoodmake it extre.. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 4f25376 | Like many white liberals, Ken sees the "whiteness" of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible." | bell hooks | ||
| 5045db7 | Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we stand on the issue of racism at different moments in our life. | bell hooks | ||
| 4e5160f | Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one's own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The "use" one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor." | bell hooks | ||
| ec1d19a | I have no fear here, in this world of trees, weeds, and growing things. | bell hooks | ||
| 8f47261 | the major enemy of black survival in America has been and is neither oppression nor exploitation but rather the nihilistic threat--that is, loss of hope and absence of meaning. For as long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. The self-fulfilling prophecy of the nihilistic threat is that without hope there can be no future, that without meaning there can be no struggle. | nihilism oppression | Cornel West | |
| 4acfd57 | Abandon all hope ye who piss me off. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 688dc91 | Another scar or two won't ruin my pretty face." "Right." "Carlos, are you being polite? That's not why I came here for. I know I'm not Steve McQueen." "My lady is totally in love with him. Lucky for me he's dead or I'd be in trouble." I hold up my glas of Jack Daniel's in a toast. "Here's to all the guys better looking than us. May they all die first." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 091bfef | We ride too high on deceptive notions of power and security and control and then when it all comes crashing down on us the low is made deeper by the high. By its precipitousness, but also by the humiliation you feel for having failed to see the plummet coming. . . . Lulled by years of relative peace and prosperity we settle into micromanaging our lives with our fancy technologies and custom interest rates and eleven different kinds of milk,.. | Lisa Halliday | ||
| 6caffd6 | Tell me I helped," I say, and it's a demand. I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together. "You do more than help. You're the reason I take my next breath." The hoarse declaration whispers against my lips a moment before he kisses me, the tenderness in the touch of his tongue caressing mine telling me more than his words." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 5bbf24f | You have this deer-in-headlights look sometimes that I'm sure means you're going to run. Run to me, Amy, not from me. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 7d0ed0c | Money doesn't determine worth. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| a25d2e4 | It proposes to each of us that we transform ourselves, or our lives, by buying something more. This more, it proposes,will make us in some way richer - even though we will be poorer by having spent our money. Publicity persuades us of such a transformation by showing us people who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result, enviable. The state of being envied is what constitutes glamour. And publicity is the process of manufactur.. | John Berger | ||
| bc8b1a0 | I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time. | John Berger | ||
| 815c2a9 | Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In i.. | imagination inspirational | J.K. Rowling | |
| abdb103 | You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost. | j-k-rowling newt-scamander popularity power right-and-wrong the-crimes-of-grindelwald the-right-thing | J.K. Rowling | |
| b6b35b2 | And together they walked back through the gateway to the Muggle world. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 33ce807 | Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7214883 | Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty. | potter potterhead rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9a6c590 | By attempting to kill you, Voldemort himself singled out the remarkable person who sits here in front of me, and gave him the tools for the job! It is Voldemort's fault that you were able to see into his thoughts, his ambitions, that you even understand the snakelike language in which he gives orders, and yet, Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort's world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), y.. | love | J.K. Rowling | |
| fff3ad6 | all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d6d2a3a | It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance. | fireflies rock stars sun twilight warmth | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 0d85fe4 | There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. | death light | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 860eb35 | The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless. The icon of Jesus may not look like the man Jesus two thousand years ago, but it represents some *quality* of Jesus, or his mother, or his followers, and so becomes an open window through which.. | art iconography icons jesus love painting | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 4441580 | When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d40199b | just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 56795f6 | How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I 'believe' for two minutes once every month or so, I'm doing well. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 511b222 | I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 563fcb5 | Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f5e8a7f | As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain. | bravery courage danger faith fear pain peace peace-of-mind road walk | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| feff8a1 | Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no longer have any real meaning for us. ...When will we be able to redeem our shock words? They have been turned to marshmallows. ...We no longer have anything to cry in time of crisis. 'Help!' we bleat. And no one hears us. 'Help' is another of those four-letter words that don't mean anything any more. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| adb25fe | In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to send men to the moon, but we'd better remember we're still closely related to Pavlov's dog. Think about driving a car: only the beginning driver thinks as he performs each action; the seasoned driver's body works kinesthetically . . .A driver prevents an accident because of his conditioned reflexes; hands and feet respond more quic.. | Madeleine L'Engle |