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| b86c74d | It's interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority of Americans buy bottled drinking water, for example, even though water runs from the faucets at home for a fraction of the cost, and government quality standards are stricter for tap water than for bottled. At any income level, we can be relied upon for categorically unnecessary purchases: p.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9294620 | Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. | love motherhood | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| ff5f1ce | But humans have a built-in weakness for fats and sugar. We evolved in lean environments where it was a big plus for survival to gorge on calorie-dense foods whenever we found them. Whether or not they understand the biology, food marketers know the weakness and have exploited it without mercy. Obesity is generally viewed as a failure of personal resolve, with no acknowledgement of the genuine conspiracy in this historical scheme. People act.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 001aaf4 | We cannot jump to conclusions. All we can do is measure and count. That is the task of science. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7550b5b | For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an alternative to the present so badly, the only doorway was a high window. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c0c18bc | In the eyes of God, we're all perfect and we all have unlimited capacity to express brilliantly. I say unlimited capacity rather than unlimited potential because potential can be a dangerous concept. We can use it to tyrannize ourselves, to live in the future instead of the present, to set ourselves up for despair. We're constantly measuring ourselves against what we think we could be, rather than what we are. Potential is a concept which c.. | potential-for-greatness | Marianne Williamson | |
| 198ad52 | When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| c94304e | Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way that served people. We're compensated by grateful looks in other people's eyes, whatever material abundance supports us in performing joyfully and at high energy, and the magnificent feeling that we did our bit today to help save the world. | success | Marianne Williamson | |
| e2a3b31 | The concept of a divine, or "Christ" mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being. "There is only one begotten Son" doesn't mean that someone else was it, and we're not. It means we're all it. There's only one of us here." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 847c409 | We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted. | marianne-williamson women | Marianne Williamson | |
| d5fe232 | Dear God, May this house be a sacred dwelling for those who live here. May those who visit feel the peace we have received from You. May darkness not enter. May the light of God shield this house from harm. May the angels bring their peace here and use our home as a haven of light. May all grow strong in this place of healing, our sanctuary from the loudness of the world. May it so be used by You forever. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| e854603 | Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering. | belief-system beliefs conscious-living facing-facts faith forces-of-nature healing-abuse healing-the-emotional-self healing-the-past healing-trauma human-suffering intellectualism intelligent intelligent-people mindset outlook-on-the-world overcoming-adversity-quotes power-of-love power-of-thoughts real-world realism reality smart-people sophisticated spiritual-living spiritual-quotes spiritual-wisdom spirituality stepchild suffering suffering-of-humanity worldview worldview-quotes | Marianne Williamson | |
| f1f0b3d | On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| c2d7260 | In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 4b5b72d | God made women too beautiful and their memories too long. | boston lentz rudy-bloom | David B. Lentz | |
| 00c53ae | Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right." That quotation acknowledges that critical sexual comparison is a direct anaphrodisiac when applied to men; either we do not yet recognize that it has exactly the same effect on women, or we do not care, or . A man is unlikely to be brought wit.. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 1f6390e | Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken from suggestions in the real world, a dream well where weightless images from it floated, transformed by imagination. It prepared children, with these hints and traces of other people's bodies, to become adults and enter the landscape of adult sexuality and meet the lover face to face. Lucky men .. | fantasy feminism sex sexuality | Naomi Wolf | |
| daad2ef | The sexual revolutionaries of the 1960s, including advocates for 'adult' material such as Hugh Hefner and Al Goldstein, represented porn to us as a great social radicalizer. But a nation of masturbating people who are looking at screens rather than at one another - who are consuming sex like any other product and who are rewiring their brains to find less and less abandon and joy in one another's arms, and to bond more and more with pixels .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 77e7a97 | Female thinness and youth are not in themselves next to godliness in this culture. Society really doesn't care about women's appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have. Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will "be good," but to make sure that they will know they are being watched." | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 3f14515 | The problem with cosmetics exists only when women feel invisible or inadequate without them. The problem with working out exists only if women hate ourselves when we don't. When a woman is forced to adorn herself to buy a hearing, when she needs her grooming in order to protect her identity, when she goes hungry in order to keep her job, when she must attract a lover so that she can take care of her children, that is exactly what makes "bea.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| d448fee | Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. | false-dichotomy rain universality | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 1e73f72 | Every reader's experience of every work is unique, largely because each person will emphasize various elements to differing degrees, and those differences will cause certain features of the text to become more or less pronounced. We bring an individual history to our reading, a mix of previous readings, to be sure, but also a history that includes, but is not limited to, educational attainment, gender, race, class, faith, social involvement.. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| e8bc213 | When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 0debab7 | The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 420640c | Real people are made out of a whole lot of things--flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words. | fictional-characters literature reality words | Thomas C. Foster | |
| efe00d9 | What's strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature. | Francine Prose | ||
| 3c0fcf8 | At last she said, "Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up. They're like a pack of hound dogs. They'll chase livestock, suck eggs, and lick the skillet. And steal? They'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke." | Richard Peck | ||
| d005c7f | When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who'd lost children wrote to me. ''I lost one, too,'' they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn't lost any children. I'm just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) | imagination parenthood | John Irving | |
| c8f700c | She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men. | John Irving | ||
| 470b646 | A terrorist, I think, is simply another kind of pornographer. The pornographer pretends he is disgusted by his work; the terrorist pretends he is uninterested in the means. The ends, they say, are what they care about. But they are both lying. Ernst loved his pornography; Ernst worshiped the means. It is never the ends that matter -- it is only the means that matter. The terrorist and the pornographer are in it for the means. The means is e.. | means-and-ends pornographer pornography terrorist violence | John Irving | |
| 558e228 | ARE THEY ESPECIALLY WILD? | John Irving | ||
| 131cdfa | where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road." | John Irving | ||
| 425f2e1 | a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you. | John Irving | ||
| 5fc8d10 | but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive. | John Irving | ||
| abff65e | Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil. | John Irving | ||
| 28d11f8 | She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance. | John Irving | ||
| a834232 | belief that the answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 92ef6d0 | Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 4a3479c | Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 0d46732 | We are not obligated to provide everyone who comes to this country with a good life," Morgan went on. "We are obligated to provide them with a chance to attain that life, through discipline and hard work. That chance is more than they have anywhere else. That is why they keep coming." | Caleb Carr | ||
| 31b2cc1 | I didn't think there was someone out there who was capable of really loving me," Miller goes on. "I didn't think there was someone out there who defied everything I knew." He takes a long swig of his drink, keeping his eyes on William, who's shifting uncomfortably on his stool, playing with his glass. "Then I found Olivia Taylor." | Jodi Ellen Malpas | ||
| 8e551e3 | The doctor will be with you soon. He said you had beautiful lacerations, and it was a pleasure to patch you up. He was quite enthusiastic.' She grinned. 'He doesn't get out much. | Jodi Taylor | ||
| 9c5e1fb | Mr Markham, the box marked "Sex" is not an invitation. Please amend the details and apologise to Mrs Partridge." | Jodi Taylor | ||
| 2361914 | Partridge was pretending not to lurk near the stairs. 'The body's under the desk,' I said as I passed, just to give her something to worry about. | Jodi Taylor |