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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dd95edd | Marilla, what if I fail!' 'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f866026 | Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f9df3ba | Her advice is much like pepper, I think . . . excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 617cff5 | Life is rich and full here... everywhere... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8ae4082 | The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the dull, far-away roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ec3ecbe | I don't want to talk as much,' she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. 'It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. | thoughts | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e8db9cd | I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does." -L.M. Montgomery, " | jenny han | ||
| 4a4b21d | Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a184809 | Valancy was perfectly happy. Some things dawn on you slowly. Some things come by lightning flashes. Valancy had had a lightning flash. She knew quite well now that she loved Barney. Yesterday she had been all her own. Now she was this man's. Yet he had done nothing--said nothing. He had not even looked at her as a woman. But that didn't matter. Nor did it matter what he was or what he had done. She loved him without any reservations. Everyt.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 52ffd11 | Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life-the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world" - Gilbert Blythe" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a9b83a1 | She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last red rose were scattered by a sudden little wind. Summer was over --- it was Autumn. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 831ab5b | Really, Nan could be very odious when she liked. Yet somehow she [Gay] didn't hate her as before. She felt very indifferent to her. She found herself looking at her with cool, appraising eyes, seeing her as she had never seen her before. An empty, selfish little creature, who had always to be amused like a child. ...A girl who posed as a sophisticate before her country cousins but who was really more provincial than they were, knowing nothi.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 81e2cf7 | What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself. | inspirational university | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 67af866 | Oh, Aunt Elizabeth," said Emily breathlessly, "when you hold the candle down like that it makes your face look just like a corpse! Oh, it's so interesting." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| dbb6453 | To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f570a2e | To the sheepfold! | Jules Verne | ||
| b8a63c8 | pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| aff3e49 | Even if we ourselves are not personally scandalized by the notion of other animals as close relatives, even if our age has accommodated to the idea, the passionate resistance of so many of us, in so many epochs and cultures, and by so many distinguished scholars, must say something important about us. What can we learn about ourselves from an apparent error so widespread, propagated by so many leading philosophers and scientists, both ancie.. | speciesism | Carl Sagan Ann Druyan | |
| ed9ea14 | It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea, watching the waves break into spray over the rocks beyond the old wreck. | Enid Blyton | ||
| bd4ebc2 | He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places, the shining bark of the wet trees all around. He could not think of any prayers now. But every movement felt like a kind of adoration. | Richard Bausch | ||
| 7cfa64b | The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 69dbc6a | move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change. | bell hooks | ||
| 993c74f | While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop. | hip-hop pop-culture | bell hooks | |
| f51f82e | Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of life in a culture where things matter more than people. Materialism creates a world of narcissism in which the focus of life is solely on acquisition and consumption. A culture of narcissism is not a place where love can flourish. The emergence of "me" culture is a direct response to our nation's failure tot truly actualize the vision of democ.. | depression narcissism | bell hooks | |
| afd9722 | We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments. | love power vulnerability | bell hooks | |
| a1192c9 | With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the only standard by which it is deemed acceptable for people to meet across boundaries and create community, then there is little hope. Fortunately, mutuality is a more constructive and positive foundation for the building of ties that allow for differences in status, position, power, and privilege whether determine.. | bell hooks | ||
| d31ce0e | The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life- as the only meaningful life there is. What could be more reassuring to a white public fearful that marginalized disenfranchised black folks might rise any day now make revolutionary black liberation struggle a reality than a documentary affirm.. | identity neocolonialism power race representation social-justice | Bell Hooks | |
| 8cef627 | I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is.. | bell hooks | ||
| 8a9afd7 | To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism. | bell hooks | ||
| bed457a | It was Day Three, Freshman Year, and I was a little bit lost in the school library,looking for a bathroom that wasn't full of blindingly shiny sophomores checking their lip gloss. Day Three.Already pretty clear on the fact that I would be using secondary bathrooms for at least the next three years,until being a senior could pass for confidence.For the moment, I knew no one,and was too shy to talk to anyone. So that first sight of Edward: pa.. | Melissa Jensen | ||
| f0f3fbd | To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim. | Bell Hooks | ||
| b0a3d72 | Women talk about love. From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject...Femaleness in patriarchal culture marks us from the very beginning as unworthy or not as worthy, and it should come as no surprise that we learn to worry most as girls, as women, about whether we are worthy of love. | bell hooks | ||
| cdd9d0f | To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking with children, and we also need to ensure that loving action is never tainted with abuse. | Bell Hooks | ||
| da75bdb | Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. | loveless men relationship safety security women | Bell Hooks | |
| d674311 | Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of working with them revealed that they could want to be with us (even to be our sexual partners) without divesting of white supremacist thinking about blackness. We saw that they were often unable to let go the idea that whites are somehow better, smarter, more likely to be intellectuals, and even that they were kinder than black folks. | bell hooks | ||
| 1c8d470 | Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again. | bell hooks | ||
| a4d183c | education was about the practice of freedom. | bell hooks | ||
| 223abe9 | Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think. | bell hooks | ||
| 87ae131 | What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroy.. | feminism feminist feminist-quotes good-man male maleness man manhood masculinity men patriarchy spiritual-growth | bell hooks | |
| 4cd603c | Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; it intensifies their lust and their longing. | feminism feminist feminist-quotes love lust masculinity porn sex sexuality | bell hooks | |
| abbe93e | Many women cannot hear male pain about love because it sounds like an indictment of female failure. | bell hooks | ||
| 096ea1b | I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that. | communion feminism literature self-love | bell hooks | |
| fc29840 | For years I lived my life suspended, trapped by the past, unable to move into the future. Like every wounded child I just wanted to turn back time and be in that paradise again, in that moment of remembered rapture where I felt loved, where I felt a sense of belonging. We can never go back. I know that now. We can go forward .We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we wer.. | love past | bell hooks | |
| bc810a4 | We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed .. | difference | Vijay Prashad |