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| 931c79d | Woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her subjectivity; some even say she thinks with her hormones. Man vainly forgets that his anatomy also contains hormones and testicles. He grasps his body as a direct and normal link with the world that he believes he apprehends in all objectivity, whereas he considers woman's body an obstacle, a prison, burdened by everything that particularizes it. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 95ac49b | Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become submissive adored objects. They do not suffer from the penis envy Freud postulated, but from power envy. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 4ef036c | How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them? | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 88a5dc7 | Some men, instead of building their existence upon the indefinite unfolding of time, propose to assert it in its eternal aspect & to achieve it as an absolute. They hope, thereby, to surmount the ambiguity of their condition. Thus, many intellectuals seek their salvation in either in critical thought or creative activity. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| bf32ba9 | biology alone cannot provide an answer to the question that concerns us: why is woman the Other? The question is how, in her, nature has been taken on in the course of history; the question is what humanity has made of the human female. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7e0a9ae | Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 74ce8da | Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing & if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 5208277 | Les cas extremes nous attachaient, au meme titre que les nevroses et les psychoses : on y retrouvait exagerees, epurees, dotees d'un saisissant relief les attitudes et les passions des gens qu'on appelle normaux. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8bfac18 | It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully. | feminism misogyny sexism social-justice women | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 6b847a3 | Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8f15f5a | It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths. | David James Duncan | ||
| 1ba066f | More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less, | David James Duncan | ||
| e8a91ac | that was the thing about nature: make one lousy rule to describe it and it'll contradict you even if it has to transmogrify and metamorphosize and bust its ass to do it. and so what? if anybody grew wise enough to grasp the real immutable laws of nature, nature'd only rear back and strike 'em dead before they got anybody to understand them | David James Duncan | ||
| 5744c15 | There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot .. | stories | David James Duncan | |
| 2413240 | Never fear. When this rose blooms, you will be with me again. | Maurice Sendak | ||
| c7e71d5 | We are flooded with books; books come pouring out of the publishing meat grinder. And, the quality has dropped severely. We may be able to print a book better, but intrinsically the book, perhaps, is not better than it was. We have a backlist of books, superb books, by Margaret Wise Brown, by Ruth Krauss, by lots of people. I'd much rather we just took a year off, a moratorium: no more books. For a year, maybe two--just stop publishing. And.. | Maurice Sendak | ||
| be20875 | Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration. | Peter Straub (Author) | ||
| a9e25a3 | Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up. | Peter Straub | ||
| ea786a8 | Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had "destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors." But color--like sound and scent--is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe--and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them." | Victoria Finlay | ||
| b452a02 | That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic. | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| e9b6b9a | You can exclude the excluded middle, but when you ride through, on your way to a lonely and more certain place, out the window you'll see everyone you've ever known living there. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| cd83b7c | A lie to the faithless is merely a conversation in their language. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 998f1c3 | Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 23d8144 | A match made in heaven - where do you get those? That's what I want to know! | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 7524a7e | It's a form of terrorism not to bomb this town. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 473e32a | She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic--drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 27a16bd | We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgemental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 1a8086b | It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 0baccd4 | They were in performance. They were performing their marriage at me. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 80a921a | Win them with your beauty, but catch them off guard with your soul. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 7bc373c | Shaman ninjas. Perfect. Now my life was complete. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5d12f1e | Going barefoot in the forest is a very sensuous and a pleasurable experience. For some of us it is almost a mystical experience. I know that I dreamt of it long before I ever durst try it. It is also an experience that brings into question our entire relationship with nature in a way that disturbs and challenges our ideas about ourselves as civilized beings. | hiking | Richard Keith Frazine | |
| 4a286ef | I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mommy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your fa.. | Keith Richards | ||
| 88233a0 | The degree to which we have not allowed ourselves to experience the reality of our true Self is represented by our resentment toward those who have actually done so. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| d6eaa4d | choose not to buy into a negative belief system. How does this work in everyday life? Let's take a common example. The newspapers report unemployment is at a record high. The television news commentator states: "No jobs are available." At this point, we are free to refuse to buy into the negative thought form. We can say instead, "Unemployment does not apply to me." By refusing to accept the negative belief, it now has no hold over our own .. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 8fc85bb | the body can discern, to the finest degree, the difference between that which is supportive of life and that which is not. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| bbb8361 | Take, for example, a man who had not spoken to his brother for twenty-three years. Neither of them could remember what the incident was about; it had been long forgotten. But they were in the habit of not speaking, and so for twenty-three years they paid the price of missing each other's company, affection, togetherness in family matters, and all the shared experiences and love they could have had. When the man learned about the mechanism o.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 23da95d | Questions arise for self-reflection: "Is it really all that money that I want, or is it the glamour that I have attached to it? What is it that I want from that job title or from that designation of "Dr." and "Esq." and "Rev."? Is it the responsibility and activities that go along with it, or is it the glamour and esteem associated with it? Do I really love that person, or am I in love with the glamour I have projected onto him or her?" The.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| cf53868 | If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them--peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on their shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you will at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. | William R. Manchester | ||
| bc06295 | she jumped to her feet and hurried off, returning only seconds later with a dark brown bottle and a coffee mug that said And then Buffy staked Edward. The End. | Heidi Betts | ||
| 03a6ae9 | If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it's possible and you do it. | inspirational | Jude Watson | |
| b233dd7 | People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others. | ian-kabra | Jude Watson | |
| 5956cce | A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a language, the process is not particularly egalitarian. Linguists, grammarians, and educators, some of them backed by the power of the state, weigh in heavily. But the process is not particularly amenable to a dictatorship, either. Despite the efforts toward "central planning," language (especially its everyday s.. | James C. Scott | ||
| f92b2e6 | Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order. This truth is best illustrated in a work-to-rule strike, which turns on the fact that any production process depends on a host of informal practices and improvisations that could never be codified. By merely following the rules meticiously, the workforce can virtually halt production. In the same fashion, th.. | James C. Scott |