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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea08d9f | A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| f4b1bd8 | Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.' Critic John Berger's well-known quote has been true throughout the history of Western culture, and it is more true now than ever. | feminism | Naomi Wolf | |
| 46c6bca | Housework's modern status," writes Ann Oakley, "is nonwork." A recent study shows that if housework done by married women were paid, family income would rise by 60 percent. Housework totals forty billion hours of France's labor power. Women's volunteer work in the United States amounts to $18 billion a year. The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 57692ac | Only God, my dear," wrote Yeats blithely, "Could love you for yourself alone/And not your yellow hair." This quote is meant as a bit of lighthearted verse. But it is an epic tragedy in three lines." | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 36d47ee | I reached out my hands to them, suddenly: I put out my hand to Sergey on one side, and to Stepon on the other, and they put out their hands to me, and to each other, and we held tight, tight; we made a circle together, my brothers and me, around the food that we had been given, and there was no wolf in the room. | fantasy retellings | Naomi Novik | |
| 1c03d46 | Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and the object desired ever-changing, disposable, and dictated by the market. The beautiful object of consumer pornography has a built-in obsolescence, to ensure that as few men as possible will form a bond with one woman for years or for a lifetime, and to ensure that women's dissatisfaction with themselves will gr.. | self-esteem society | Naomi Wolf | |
| fda5347 | If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it. | hamlet stories writing | Thomas C. Foster | |
| c742a29 | I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan | Francine Prose | ||
| ab60fa4 | She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back. But of course we had. She'd taken me back. | Richard Peck | ||
| 159da9f | She had eyes in the back of her heart. | Richard Peck | ||
| f2e598c | It is often difficult, I find, for people today to grasp the notion that one family, working through several restaurants could change the eating habit of an entire country. But such was the achievement of the Delmonicos in the United States of the last century. Before they opened their first small cafe on William Street in 1823, catering to the business and financial communities of Lower Manhattan, American food could generally be described.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| b43227f | There's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 97e36ea | Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis. If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would positio.. | george-w-bush idiocy incompetence self-importance | John Irving | |
| c61b330 | He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control. | self-control self-restraint | John Irving | |
| f20099c | Moreover, there was what Amy called "the cocksuckers' contingent of the country"--what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots--and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster." | John Irving | ||
| a1e4698 | Just accept as a fact that everyone of any emotional importance to you is related to everyone else of any emotional importance to you; these relationships need not extend to blood, of course, but the people who change your life emotionally - all those people, from different places, from different times, spanning many wholly unrelated coincidences - are nonetheless 'related'. We associate people with each other for emotional not for factual .. | John Irving | ||
| 52a415c | Women know when men don't desire them: ghosts and witches, deities and demons, angels of death--even virgins, even ordinary women. They always know; women can tell when you have stopped desiring them. | John Irving | ||
| f7af2ce | When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away," Pepe told the young doctor." | John Irving | ||
| 67b304e | friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships. | relationships | John Irving | |
| 55230c7 | there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love. | love | John Irving | |
| e523073 | I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying! | John Irving | ||
| ba2e094 | That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up." | John Irving | ||
| 9946700 | If you're God's instrument, Owen," I said, "how come you need my help to stuff a basketball?" | John Irving | ||
| 36c4f8e | I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism--it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win | John Irving | ||
| a230d52 | We've been an empire in decline since I can remember," Ketchum said bluntly; he wasn't kidding. "We are a lost nation, Danny. Stop farting around." | John Irving | ||
| 69b4f00 | When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we passed him back and forth - so effortlessly - we believed that Owen weighed nothing at all. We did not realize that there were forces beyond our play. Now I know that they were the forces that contributed to our illusion of Owen's weightlessness; they were the forces we didn't have the faith to feel, they were the forces we failed to believe in - and they were also lifting up Owen Meany, taki.. | John Irving | ||
| 4bac7f8 | Hang in there, Frank!' Freud called - to the entire lobby. 'Don't let anyone tell you you're queer! You're a prince, Frank!' Freud cried. 'You're better than Rudolf!' Freud yelled to Frank. 'You're more majestic than all the Hapsburgs, Frank!' Freud encouraged him. Frank couldn't speak, he was crying so hard. | John Irving | ||
| d2bacd5 | When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language. | John Irving | ||
| 7e1c7bc | Of course: because it was in one of the camps that he went blind. They had performed some failed experiment on his eyes in the camp. 'No, not summer camp,' Franny had to tell Lilly, who had always been afraid of being sent to summer camp, and was unsurprised to hear that they tortured the campers. | John Irving | ||
| d8dc157 | Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You're nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. "Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!" | John Irving | ||
| 23e1580 | We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives. | John Irving | ||
| 94ba710 | When Homer Wells saw the stationmaster's brain stem exposed, he felt that Dr. Larch was busy enough - with both hands - for it to be safe to say what Homer wanted to say. 'I love you,' said Homer Wells. He knew he had to leave the room, then - while he could still see the door - and so he started to leave. 'I love you too, Homer,' said Wilbur Larch, who for another minute or more could not have seen a blood clot in the brain stem if there h.. | John Irving | ||
| 0eca701 | That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business." | John Irving | ||
| 69872e7 | You don't sound very well Owen." I pointed out to him. "IF JESUS HAD TO BE BORN ON A DAY LIKE THIS. I DON'T THINK HE'D HAVE LASTED LONG ENOUGH TO BE CRUCIFIED." Owen said." | John Irving | ||
| 2ab52fe | I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace. | John Irving | ||
| 65ec472 | Some things were above my pay grade. Actually, there were things that slithered on their bellies that were higher than my pay grade. | humor humour work | Jodi Taylor | |
| d85d7d0 | She felt so lovely in his hands. She felt so loved in his eyes. | Rachel Simon | ||
| a8bc46c | How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love? | Rachel Simon | ||
| c7483dd | A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad. | Rachel Simon | ||
| 70e0129 | Everybody is always willing to throw someone else's country to the dogs. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 3cb1abe | Kings don't move mountains as a favor to a friend, | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| eec8f05 | Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 46bd515 | I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 8a9bd27 | Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king. | Megan Whalen Turner |