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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76d1920 | Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| eb7fde6 | The story doesn't begin with grown women being massacred in the workplace or in the press. It begins with innocent little girls who become convinced, for whatever reason, that the girl within them isn't good enough. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 6458c15 | The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| db5306b | The resurrection is our awakening from the dream, our return to right-mindedness, and thus our deliverance from hell. ... We recognized how avidly we drill the nails into our own hands and feet holding on to earthly interpretation of things when a choice to do otherwise would release us and make us happy. | resurrection | Marianne Williamson | |
| d22fe83 | Only infinite patience produces immediate results. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d3d1d24 | It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 1fbab6e | Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, "i haven't even started yet." | inspirational spiritual-growth | Marianne Williamson | |
| facdaca | People are not perfect--that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 537c750 | Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 7fffa8f | When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God. And when we're not thinking with love, since only love is real, then we're actually not thinking at all. We're hallucinating. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 5bb3181 | In the holy relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 72a11f0 | And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. That is not to say they don't exist for us as human beings. They do. But our fear is not our ultimate reality, and it does not replace the truth of who we really are. Our love, which is our real self, doesn't die, but merely goes underground. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 6c679a1 | What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f991858 | Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality. People who profoundly achieve aren't necessarily people who do so much, they're people around whom things get done. Mahatma Gandhi and JFK were great examples of this. Their great achievements lay in all the energy they stirred in other people, the invisible forces they unleashed.. | career love personal-development personal-power | Marianne Williamson | |
| f9f0e78 | love requires a different kind of "seeing" than we're used to--a different kind of knowing or thinking. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. It's a "world beyond" | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d28d69a | Forgiveness is "selective remembering"--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless--it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| c38679f | Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.* | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 140ba19 | ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 231953c | Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. In assigning value to women in a vertical hierarchy according to a culturally imposed physical standard, it is an expression of power relations in which women must unnaturally compete for resources that men have appropriated for themselves... | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 937eaa6 | Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue." | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 6c23cf8 | It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom. | safe-sex sex | Naomi Wolf | |
| 2ef8f8c | Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth." | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry diets double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexual-violence sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 67bfba9 | Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. The.. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 1da95c3 | what I saw as the negative effect on women's minds of such mundane "tracking" activities as calorie counting, I had sensed that the reason so many tasks women are expected to do in society involve this kind of thinking (e.g. scanning, list making, judging themselves critically, "measuring up") had something to do with the suppressive effect this kind of thinking has on other, bolder kinds of intellectual or emotional leaps." -- | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 1683799 | Women are told for so long that our feelings--our internal sensations of pain, pleasure, joy, sadness, or anger--are too much, or wrong, or bad. So eventually we can't stop thinking and thinking about these problems, trying to think them out, but we stop feeling our feelings about them. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 29e6ecd | Women are not wrong if they react instinctively - often jealously - against their partner's interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman's destructive rival for her man's sexual capabilities. | pornography sexuality | Naomi Wolf | |
| 18d300f | Economist Marvin Harris described women as a "literate and docile" labor pool, and "therefore desirable candidates for the information- and people-processing jobs thrown up by modern service industries." The qualities that best serve employers in such a labor pool's workers are: low self-esteem, a tolerance for dull repetitive tasks, lack of ambition, high conformity, more respect for men (who manage them) than women (who work beside them),.. | too-real | Naomi Wolf | |
| 6076af6 | There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1a038ff | Ello, love. Fancy a cuppa?" "You're not British, Isis," Naomi says. "I can be things," I insist." | Sara Wolf | ||
| 0c7306f | What if she doesn't worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam-dance on a forged ID to the Pogues, and walk home barefoot, holding her shoes, alone at dawn; she might baby-sit in a battered-women's shelter one night a month; she might skateboard down Lombard Street with its seven hairpin turns, or fall in love with her best friend and do something about it, or lose herself fo.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| ccdae90 | It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making .. | constitution liberty morality usa values | Naomi Wolf | |
| c8d7a34 | Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise. | symbols | Thomas C. Foster | |
| c76512f | Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. | fame reading writers | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 8506007 | And romance is just the place for creating mythic figures doing mythic things. Like carving 'civilzation' out of the wilderness. Like showing us what a hero looks life, a real, American, sprung-from-the soil, lethal-weapon-with-leggings, bona fide hero. And for a guy who never marries, he has a lot of offspring. Shane. The Virginian. The Ringo Kid. The Man with No Name. Just think how many actors would have had no careers without Natty Bump.. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 2b4c553 | In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence. | vampires vampirism wall-street | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 26b76a6 | Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait to get some free time so I could go back there and explore. | Francine Prose | ||
| 873f163 | There are some people who remain your best friends even if you haven't seen them for ages, and others with whom you start from scratch every time. | Francine Prose | ||
| 40b2f59 | And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again. | time | Francine Prose | |
| 6267385 | Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased. | woman | Francine Prose | |
| 3f84edd | Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face. | fear haters jerks labels projecting | Richard Peck | |
| 39a216e | This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand---how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him. | Richard Peck | ||
| f64af26 | Nobody but a reader becomes a writer. | Richard Peck | ||
| 6eb1deb | How does the world look, I often found myself wondering, to a young man whose father is his enemy? | Caleb Carr | ||
| 6e63f31 | people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. | John Irving |