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| 2119d49 | The mass depiction of the modern woman as a "beauty" is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their individuality, as the myth has it, "beauty" is by definition inert, timeless, and generic. That this hallucination is necessary and deliberate is evident in the way "beauty" so directly contradicts women's real situation." | media society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 476614e | There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today's power structure, economy, and culture to mount a counteroffensive against women. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 224105a | Women understand that there are two distinct economies: There is physical attraction, and then there is the "ideal." When a woman looks at a man, she can physically dislike the idea of his height, his coloring, his shape. But after she has liked him and loved him, she would not want him to look any other way: For many women, the body appears to grow beautiful and erotic as they grow to like the person in it. The actual body, the smell, the .. | feminism love our-shared-shelf | Naomi Wolf | |
| 5dc0ce5 | We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement: the beauty myth. It is the modern version of a social reflex that has been in force since the Industrial Revolution. As women released themselves from the feminine mystique of domesticity, the beauty myth took over its lost ground, expanding as it waned to carry on its work of social control. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 539a2f9 | The Rites of Beauty also seduce women by meeting their current hunger for color and poetry. As they make their way into male public space that is often prosaic and emotionally dead, beauty's sacraments glow brighter than ever. As women are inundated with claims on their time, ritual products give them an alibi to take some private time for themselves. At their best they give women back a taste of mystery and sensuality to compensate them fo.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 4dbe09a | Among the many incredible things about your incredible pelvic nerve and its lovely multiple branches is that, as we saw, it is completely unique for every individual woman on earth--no two women are alike. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 118e387 | Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 54db8c8 | It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life: she was living, and I wasn't. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1a2ec6a | Did the tsar refuse to marry you?" I asked. I thought the duke might have been angry with her if he had: he hadn't seemed like a man to be satisfied if his plans went awry. "No," she said. "I am tsarina. For as long as I live." She said it dryly, as if she didn't expect that to last long. "The tsar is a black sorcerer. He is possessed by a demon of flame that wants to devour me." I laughed; I couldn't help it. It wasn't mirth, it was bitter.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 25c9524 | It certainly went quicker to throw money away than to make it | Naomi Novik | ||
| 38012d8 | We hadn't taken him prisoner; he'd just followed us out, trailing after us with a puzzled look, like a man who knew he wasn't dreaming, but felt he should have been. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3b14f5f | and a clean pocket-handkerchief. The | Naomi Novik | ||
| aa099a5 | Four years! My heart was glad as birds. | naomi-novik | Naomi Novik | |
| c3ddcf7 | I [Miryem] went staggering to all the shelves in the room, looking for anything left to change, and when I didn't find anything after going round three times, I just stood there stupidly for a few more moments, and then I lay down on my mountain of gold like an improbable dragon and fell asleep without meaning to do so. | gold | Naomi Novik | |
| 105609f | I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you | Naomi Novik | ||
| e01a9e9 | keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature, | funny granby iskierka vainglorious | Naomi Novik | |
| c9e27d4 | If you really wanted to court me, you'd have to do it by my family's laws, and you'd have to marry me the same way." I said, and folded my arms, knowing that would be the end of it, of course. And I wasn't sorry; I wouldn't be. I wouldn't regret any man who wouldn't do that, no matter what else he was or offered me; that much had lived in my heart all my life, a promise between me and my people, that my children would still be Israel no mat.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 0ae968d | It seems very strange that the ocean is full of things that one can eat as one likes, and on land everything seems to be spoken for," Temeraire said," | Naomi Novik | ||
| 9827273 | we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 082e434 | Professors also read, and think, symbolically. Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 500c217 | We love the plays, the great characters, the fabulous speeches, the witty repartee even in times of duress. I hope never to be mortally stabbed, but if I am, I'd sure like to have the self-possession, when asked if it's bad, to answer, "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve," as Mercutio does in Romeo and Juliet. I mean, to be dying and clever at the same time, how can you not love that?.. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 9723946 | If to get to the finish line the hero must walk over a sea of bodies, then so be it. He can die at said line, but he's got to get there. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 5897630 | characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| fd231cf | Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius. | james-joyce | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 22005af | T here's no written rule anywhere that I know of stating this, no First-teenth Amendment to the Literary Constitution, but there might as well be: you get one national poet. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| ca7637d | What we mean when speaking of "myth" in general is story, the ability of story to explain ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry--all very highly useful and informative in their own right--can't." | analysis education literature myth professor reading story | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 92ee4a8 | I am struck most strongly by her introspection, solitude, perfect self-awareness and sense of purpose...The beauty and truth of her words have transcended the limits placed upon her life by the darkness of human nature. | Francine Prose | ||
| 4792c7a | Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content. | Francine Prose | ||
| b35125e | Love is strange" was what everyone said. It was practically the club motto." | Francine Prose | ||
| ece5f3c | Let me digress a moment to talk about beginnings. How much simpler life would be if we were wise enough to stop at the first blush of romance, the start of a business transaction or a casual friendship. If we knew enough to pause and think: this is as good as it gets. Everything will go downhill from this moment on. So once again our instincts are the opposite of what they should be, propelling us forward exactly when they should be holding.. | Francine Prose | ||
| 7a8f027 | Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing. | Francine Prose | ||
| 3639a3d | Isolated in the attic, Anne could only examine her own history and her own conscience, and try to locate the wellspring of her sadness and her rage. | Francine Prose | ||
| 67047a0 | You will do yourself a disservice if you confine your reading to the rising star whose six-figure, two-book contract might seem to indicate where your own work should be heading. I'm not saying you shouldn't read such writers, some of whom are excellent and deserving of celebrity. I'm only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written. | Francine Prose | ||
| 448bfe9 | The chill lowered my defenses, and I caught a fever. A fever to understand. | Francine Prose | ||
| 3070722 | A neighbor once told me he had trouble with Garcia Marquez's novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer. | reading reading-habits | Francine Prose | |
| 94c57da | Sometimes only in retrospect do we realize that we have wasted our best years looking for a lost, inappropriate first love, that our life-changing passion for a particular person was no more than the desire to finally kiss the crooked lower lip of an elementary school principal or the boy on whom we had an unrequited childhood crush. | Francine Prose | ||
| ac66196 | Yvonne had created this place for her and for others like her: born into the wrong life, the wrong body, an innocent victim of God's mistake. | Francine Prose | ||
| 55367aa | The Nazis understood how useful it was to prevent the camp guards from identifying with the prisoners, to emphasize the otherness, the difference of the people whom the boxcars brought to Sobibor and Treblinka. | Francine Prose | ||
| e2f2614 | I've always thought that a close-reading course should at least be a companion, if not an alternative, to the writing workshop. Though it also doles out praise, the workshop most often focuses on what a writer has done wrong, what needs to be fixed, cut, or augmented. Whereas reading a masterpiece can inspire us by showing us how a writer does something brilliantly. | Francine Prose | ||
| 9133d5f | Because the diary was not written in retrospect, it contains the trembling life of every moment. | Francine Prose | ||
| 226705f | Any chance you could get lost in the moment?" He grinned against her mouth and leaned back, brown gaze warm. "Green Eyes, if I got lost in the moment, you'd be bent over the bed, face in the pillows, begging to come with every fiber of your being." | Rebecca Zanetti | ||
| e7776f0 | Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He's quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He's a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine's car. "Your fly's unzipped," Geraldine points out, disgusted. "Who gave you a license to s.. | briefcase buddy car cash disgust fly glasses hipster hot-dog leather lewd library money professor unzip window | Rebecca McNutt | |
| bb734ae | The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher. | Richard Peck | ||
| 0335233 | He pulls the tape off Allegra's mouth. Grabs her BY THE HAIR and gives her a peck on the lips. | Richard Kadrey |