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| 838d808 | There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul. | risk possibilities discontent creativity | Rob Bell | |
| 13101ad | The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience. | Rob Bell | ||
| 1c42baf | People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| b5811fb | It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| f4cb704 | when theologians read the Bible through the lens of the Exodus narrative, they are called "liberation theologians," but their counterparts who read it through the Greco-Roman narrative are never labeled "domination theologians" or "colonization theologians." Similarly, we have "black theology" and "feminist theology," but Greco-Roman orthodoxy is never called "white theology" or "male theology." -- | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 12f6f29 | Whatever ember of love for goodness flickers within us, however feeble or small... that's what the Spirit works with, until that spark glows warmer and brighter. From the tiniest beginning, our whole lives--our whole hearts, minds, souls, and strength--can be set aflame with love for God. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 61c06d4 | I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| c442412 | I do understand why women started to reject the word "feminism." It ended up being invoked in so many bafflingly inappropriate contexts that--if you weren't actually aware of the core aims of feminism and were trying to work it out simply from the surrounding conversation--you'd presume it was some spectacularly unappealing combination of misandry, misery, and hypocrisy, which stood for ugly clothes, constant anger, and, let's face it, no f.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| c03c01c | With mounting concern, I learned that having a PS600 handbag is like having a crush on the Joker in Batman. You MUST do it. It is an irreducible fact of being a woman. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 7efb1b0 | I appear to have no time for blondes--except for Bugs Bunny, dressed up as a woman, as he seduces the fool Fudd. That is a woman I could be, definitely: a cartoon man-rabbit dressed up as a girl, trying to have sex with a stuttering bald man. I could definitely do that. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| b8d3ad7 | Rock music needs very supportive bras, I note, holding onto my bosoms as I leap up and down, doggedly. This is something the music press had never mentioned. They have so little guidance for girls. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ed9b35f | Don't call it sexism. Call it "manners" instead. When a woman blinks a little, shakes her head like Columbo, and says, "I'm sorry, but that sounded a little . . . uncivil," a man is apt to apologize. Because even the most rampant bigot on earth has no defense against a charge of simply being rude." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 897209e | I'm so tired of this shit. Batman never had to get together a petition with 250,000 signatures on it when he wanted to change things. He just went and rammed the Batcar into the Penguin's den. Why can't I ram a Batcar into the Penguin's den? I wish I was Batman. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 6b648e0 | Our new budget now, with no wriggle room for anything extra--not a pot of jam, or a new pair of shoes. We cannot do anything other than stay very still. We are on 11 percent less of was-never-enough-in-the-first-place. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ee3e679 | Boobs exist only to jiggle up and down on the chests of women between the ages of 14 and 32, after which they get too droopy, and then presumably fall off the face of the earth, into space; maybe to eventually become part of the giant rings of Saturn. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 2625a35 | Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys? | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d5319df | As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, "to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 14fa0c2 | It's exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 920eb11 | You've never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It's like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| a86eea2 | When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can't help but think, You just haven't taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0f374b4 | think about how brave it is, to do this: to queue up, and meet your hero. There's something incredibly intimate about reading, or listening, or looking at someone else's art. When it truly moves you--when you whoop when Prince whoops in Purple Rain; or cry when Bastian cries in The NeverEnding Story, it is as if you have been them, for a while. You traveled inside them, in their shoes, breathing their breath. Moving with their pulse. A fain.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 79f9619 | I am so hot for Chevy. I have even imagined what my first line to him will be - the one that will capture his heart. 'Chevy Chase?' I will say, at a party very closely modelled on the ones I've seen in Dynasty. 'Any relation to Cannock Chase?' Cannock Chase is just off the A5 to Stafford. LA-born movie star and comedian Chevy is going to both get, and love, this joke. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| b05f51a | A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas...to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time. I just want to say..."Hello. We can hear you. The words survived." | reading writing inspirational | Caitlin Moran | |
| efe34d7 | Being able to wear underwear brilliantly is such a key talent for a woman that there are even competitions to judge who is the best at it: Miss America, Miss World, Miss International, Miss Universe. You can call this "the swimsuit round" all you like--we know what it really means. It's the "bra and undies round." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f6490db | Pre-internet, it's how I learned, and it learned me good. I know deep wisdoms, such as, 'If you fancy someone hot who is already married, just wait a while - their wife might catch fire.' (Jane Eyre) | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 6f133c9 | A self-made man"--not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast-moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of me. I'm gonna begat myself." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| a181757 | If I don't keep this job, then my only future career-options are working in Argos, or being a prostitute,' I say, wildly. 'Maybe you could work in Argos a prostitute,' my mother says, merrily. She appears to be enjoying this conversation. 'They could list you in the catalogue, and people could queue up, and wait for you to come down the conveyor belt. | humour humor | Caitlin Moran | |
| 3c16635 | Every woman who chooses--joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of her own free will and desire--not to have a child does womankind a massive favor in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half of those new people we go on to create are also women--presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making ne.. | women feminist self-worth | Caitlin Moran | |
| 80da957 | I have discovered something amazing: some people aren't just people, but a place - a whole world. Sometimes you find someone you could live in for the rest of your life. John Kite is like Narnia to me - I've pushed through his fur coat and into a land where I am Princess Duchess, High Chatter of Cair Paravel. In John Kite, people walk down the street holding pigs, and we walk onstage holding hands into the bright light, and I fly over tiny .. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f9ce0b1 | The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person who wasn't listening- was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out what the red hieroglyphics meant. Had I translated them, I would have realized those red lines read: 'Never feel this bad again. Never come back t.. | depression self-harm self-mutilation | Caitlin Moran | |
| e37e159 | I don't need to critique things, or have an opinion, or pose, with John - we just go around being alive, and pointing at things. We're just, simply, in the world. It had never occurred to me what a wonderful thing this was. Or perhaps it did, a long time ago - but I had forgotten. I am full of how great life is. I am so happy to be alive. That point of life is joy - to make it, to receive it. That the Earth is a treasure box of people and p.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 24df509 | At 14, I am an experiment. Inside, I am resurrected. I am in the middle of the kind of explosion of perspective that, in later years, I will pay a great deal of money to emulate in nightclubs, and at parties, in bathrooms--counting out tenners for pills in order to feel a tenth this remorseless, expanded, and inspired. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 6c297a0 | It really is important you say these words out loud. "I AM A FEMINIST." If you feel you cannot say it--not even standing on the ground--I would be alarmed. It's probably one of the most important things a woman will ever say: the equal of "I love you," Is it a boy or a girl?" or "No! I've changed my mind! I don't want bangs!" | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0637461 | I'm going to say 'Amen' now. This is a deal now. We are square on this. You will sort this out. Violet will not rat on us. Amen. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 3209c50 | in the 21st century, we don't need to march against size zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs and Botox. We don't need to riot, or go on hunger strike. There's no need to throw ourselves under a horse, or even a donkey. We just need to look it in the eye, squarely, for a minute, | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5a1d4d1 | So it was no cause and no country he fought for, no ideal and no justice. He fought for his people, for the children and the kin, and not even the land, because not even the land was worth the war, but the people were, wrong as they were, insane even as many of them were, they were his own, he belonged with his own. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 914f9b3 | Longstreet stayed up talking, as long as there was company, as long as there was a fire. Because when the fire was gone and the dark had truly come there was no way he could avoid the dead faces of his children. | Michael Shaara | ||
| ada296c | And yet suddenly, terribly, he wanted it again, the way it used to be, arms linked together, all drunk and singing beautifully into the night, with visions of death from the afternoon and dreams of death in the coming dawn, the night filled with a monstrous and temporary glittering joy, fat moments, thick seconds dropping like warm rain, jewel after jewel. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 8bed9ca | When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free | freedom unknown | Tim Cahill | |
| c61051f | But I go back down near the water with Steppa to look for treasure. We find a white shell like a snail, but when I curl my finger inside, he's gone out. "Keep it," say Steppa. "But what about when he comes home?" | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 3b37b26 | Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 5441925 | Miss N. had taught her nurses to watch carefully in order to understand what the ill required and provide it. Not medicine--that was the doctors' domain--but the things she argued were equally crucial to recovery: light, air, warmth, cleanliness, rest, comfort, nourishment, and conversation. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| defb403 | Well, they don't make their music just to pass the time," says Jenny, grinning. "Got to want something to sing about it, no?" -- | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 7e11818 | She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know." ... "It's unbearable, the not knowing." | Emma Donoghue |