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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7de1794 | Try not to use words like "misogyny" and "patriarchy" too often with Chizalum. We feminists can sometimes be too jargony, and jargon can sometimes feel too abstract. Don't just label something misogynistic; tell her why it is, and tell her what would make it not be." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e60c5df | He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4bc5b7c | Take cooking, for example. Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men--cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ae4654b | I'm Vincent," Obinze said, when they met in the back room. "I'm Dee." A pause. "No, you're not English. You can pronounce it. My real name is Duerdinhito, but the English, they cannot pronounce, so they call me Dee." "Duerdinhito," Obinze repeated. "Yes!" A delighted smile." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 27f88ef | You don't even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning. | inspirational job | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 52d454d | Teach her, too, to question the idea of women as a special species. I once heard an American politician, in his bid to show his support for women, speak of how women should be "revered" and "championed"--a sentiment that is all too common. Tell Chizalum that women actually don't need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings. There is a patronizing undertone to the idea of women needing to be "champion.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d6cdeee | I had examined him that day, too, looking away when his eyes met mine, for signs of difference, of godlessness. I didn't see any, but I was sure they were there somewhere. They had to be. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 55c20ab | Do not measure her on a scale of what a girl should be. Measure her on a scale of being the best version of herself. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8f4cf28 | Sin duda no los juilaban por sus influencias y por esa simpatia y respeto que ha habido siempre en Espana por lo inutil. | satirical | Pío Baroja | |
| 595f25d | The very word 'disappears' implies that the universe is, so to speak, finite, and that it is possible to leave it. But no-o-othing" (he deliberately drew the word out) "can ever leave the universe. And nothing can enter it. Not a single speck of dust can appear or disappear. Matter is transformed into energy, and energy into matter," | Amos Oz | ||
| 377f918 | there are places in the world where real life is still happening, far away from here, in a pre-Hitler Europe, where hundreds of lights are lit every evening, ladies and gentlemen gather to drink coffee with cream in oak-panelled rooms, or sit comfortably in splendid coffee-houses under gilt chandeliers, stroll arm in arm to the opera or the ballet, observe from close-up the lives of great artists, passionate love affairs, broken hearts, the.. | Amos Oz | ||
| 3d69db8 | Estamos solos, cada uno consigo mismo y con su muerte propia y su vida solitaria y desastrosa, estamos muy solos todos. Pero te dire algo que quizas te consuele. La soledad es el afrodisiaco del espiritu, como la conversacion lo es de la inteligencia. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 2556cbe | Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, "the courtroom oath--'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'--is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath...indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| d68a908 | probability is the very guide of life | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| ab50232 | The eye that sees is not a mere physical organ but a means of perception conditioned by the tradition in which its possessor has been reared. --RUTH BENEDICT | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| ef8703f | There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle. | hope jungle wilderness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| ae1a5d1 | But there are no safe spaces. 'Home' can be unsafe and dangerous because it bears the likelihood of intimacy and thus thinner boundaries. Staying 'home' and not venturing out from our group comes from woundedness, and stagnates our growth. To bridge means loosening our borders, not closing off to others. Bridging is the work of opening the gate to the stranger, within and without. | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | ||
| e10f027 | Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element. | identity inmigrant | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | |
| 29038c2 | Klonopin ruined my lie. It takes away your drive, and in the morning, you don't want to get out of bed, because you feel so groggy. I don't even know what it's like to feel normal. This is my world. Things don't get me as excited as most people because I'm in a constant state of sedation. It should never have been prescribed for long-term use. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 933f894 | Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance. (81) | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 15a7f67 | all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35) | mental-illness parents | Robert Whitaker | |
| 4177474 | They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody. | relationships | Christopher Paolini | |
| 338b835 | En primer lugar, no dejeis que nadie gobierne vuestra mente ni vuestro cuerpo y emplead especial atencion para no poner limites a vuestras ideas, porque se puede ser un hombre libre a pesar de sufrir ataduras mas fuertes que las de un esclavo. Escuchad a los hombres, pero no os entregueis a ellos en cuerpo y alma. Sed respetuosos con los que ostentan el poder, pero no los sigais ciegamente. Juzgad con logica y con razon, pero no hagais come.. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 2f1d0e4 | Pay no heed to your enemies' laugh. They won't be able to once you lob off their heads. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 85fc9c4 | Some miles to the North, a ring of mountains rose out of the clouds. The peaks were clad in snow and ice, and together they looked like an ancient, jagged crown resting atop the layers of mist. The eastward-facing scarps shone brilliantly in the light of the morning sun, while long blue shadows cloaked the western sides and stretched dwindling into the distance, tenebrous daggers upon the billowy, snow-white plain. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| e3cd601 | If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's approval dictate your actions | eragon saphira the-inheritance-cycle | Christopher Paolini | |
| 2d10adf | He's visitin' an old friend," supplied Eragon, dropping his voice into a thick accent. "I'm along t' make sure he don't get lost, if y' get m'meaning. He ain't as young as he used to be--had a bit too much sun when he was young'r. Touch o' the brain fever, y' know." Brom bobbed his head pleasantly. "Right. Go on through," said the guard, waving his hand and dropping the pike. "Just make sure he doesn't cause any trouble." "Oh, he won't," pr.. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| e9777c5 | Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void. | sadness | Christopher Paolini | |
| 66f8a83 | Yes it is" Eragon said before his courage left him "just like you" | funny | Christopher Paolini | |
| 0fc8598 | At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors, and above all the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 2fa0c8c | As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious battle, today's children of the banalized Enlightenment are likewise meant to burn what they worshipped and worship what they burned. | enlightenment | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| e1adf23 | Consequently, immune systems at this level can be defined a priori as embodied expectations of injury and the corresponding programmes of protection and repair. | practising | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 6eec0ef | Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that you are not indifferent to the difference between perfect and imperfect, demonstrate to us that achievement - excellence, arete, virtu - has not remained a foreign word to you, admit that you have motives for new endeavours! Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it d.. | change-your-life sport training | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 116375f | As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| d7af2b2 | the grass wasn't greener on the other side of the fence; it was greener where it was watered. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 24ec3c3 | Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| a4a7ca5 | What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so...simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| f6faa42 | Kindness is something that should always be passed on. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| ba66bc0 | If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| f52eb27 | I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage. | marriage-husbands reading | Debbie Macomber | |
| 09d23b3 | God created us to dream. When we fail to dream, we rob Him of the opportunity to do great things. Sometimes we shy away from dreaming big dreams. Maybe we don't want to ask for too much. Maybe we somehow don't feel worthy. But over and over again in the Bible, the Lord instructs us to envision what He can do. Our job is to dream. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| e292758 | Chretien speaking to Dominic: 'Magda is no ordinary young woman. There is a blood price on her head way beyond that upon any Cathar, indeed way beyond mine. I advise you most strongly to think with your head, not your loins.' 'I am thinking,' Dominic said softly, 'with my heart. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 77d38e3 | she knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| c3194a2 | There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him. | Elizabeth Chadwick |