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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3338851 | In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ddc27b4 | Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It's the Holy Spirit's job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f9be378 | Life might have taught you that emotions are dangerous. Perhaps as a child, you were told things such as, "Don't you cry or I'll give you something to cry about!"--an emotionally tyrannical message that certainly would have taught you to suppress your feelings at all costs. Perhaps your emotions were ignored, minimized, or even laughed at by parents who had other things and other children to think about. What matters is that, for whatever r.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 9cb6e7a | America's higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn't belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a159003 | I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means "far-sickness, an ache for distance." Penny" | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 16af3a4 | The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of--and relationship to--time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. . . | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| d8c9ba3 | Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded, | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| a7130b7 | I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated.... | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| cb91ba2 | Death demands its own designated punctuation mark. Maybe: ______ died/ It is a dividing line / everything on this side is different. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| d605abd | For any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will come not from men or from the media, but from women, in the way we see and behave toward other women, | Naomi Wolf | ||
| cda7114 | Images of strangled women, women in cages do not push any limits; they are a mainstream cliche of a mainstream social order. Rock music fails to live up to its subversive tradition when it eroticizes the same old establishment sadomasochism rather than playing with gender roles to make us look at them afresh | Naomi Wolf | ||
| e3a7be9 | We conceived of the planet as female, an all-giving Mother Nature, just as we conceived of the female body, infinitely alterable by and for man; we serve both ourselves and our hopes for the planet by insisting on a new female reality on which to base a new metaphor for the earth: the female body with its own organic integrity that must be respected. | feminism | Naomi Wolf | |
| ced3797 | It is painful for women to talk about beauty because under the myth, one woman's body is used to hurt another. Our faces and bodies become instruments for punishing other women, often used out of our control and against our will. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 9ec47c0 | women who looked like fashion models--admitted to knowing, from the time they could first consciously think, that the ideal was someone tall, thin, white, and blond, a face without pores, asymmetry, or flaws, someone wholly "perfect," and someone whom they felt, in one way or another, they were not. I" | Naomi Wolf | ||
| dd9f4dc | The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine sphere, the better to enclose those women inside it. Other such fictions arose contemporaneously: a version of childhood that required continual maternal supervision; a concept of female biology that required middle-class women to act out the roles of hysterics and hypochondriacs; a conviction that respectable .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| cfd8d7f | Women will be free of the beauty myth when we can choose to use our faces and clothes and bodies as simply one form of self-expression out of a full range of others. We can dress up for our pleasure, but we must speak up for our rights. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| fa5beac | When faced with the myth, the questions to ask are not about women's faces and bodies but about the power relations of the situation. Who is this serving? Who says? Who profits? When someone discusses a woman's appearance to her face, she can ask herself, is it that person's business? Are the power relations equal? Would she feel comfortable making the same personal comments in return? | Naomi Wolf | ||
| a0f24a1 | The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no longer can manage. It is seeking right now to undo psychologically and covertly all the good things that feminism did for women materially and overtly. | feminism women | Naomi Wolf | |
| c838430 | Very nearly released by the spread of contraception, legal abortion, and the demise of the sexual double standard, that sexuality was quickly restrained once again by the new social forces of beauty pornography and beauty sadomasochism, which arose to put the guilt, shame, and pain back into women's experience of sex. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 0e4a3af | something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| b712385 | The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 79bb54c | Advertisers are the West's courteous censors. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 7ea67f1 | Women's writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty--its presence as well as its absence. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 93e91dc | Women's writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty--its presence as well as its absence. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 8dd11a2 | Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 0ae5c59 | The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| a78ec75 | when some of the neural "lights" in question have been switched off by injury, the outcome can be connected to a form of generalized depression, or what Dr. Jim Pfaus of Concordia University calls "anhedonia"--a state of pleasurelessness, bleakness, or grayness, in perceptions of the world." | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 6805e0f | 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 | |
| 0454f45 | Food is the primal symbol of social worth. Whom a society values, it feeds well. The piled plate, the choicest cut, say: We think you're worth this much of the tribe's resources. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| d35c977 | As the political scientist Michael Wolfe puts it, "Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are unlikely to do it very well." He adds, "As a way of governing, conservatism is another name for disaster."30" | Naomi Klein | ||
| c44981d | From the early 1930s, professional purges led so many Jewish and "communist" academics and scientists to emigrate that this led to a major brain drain. By 1933, about 2,000 of the nation's premier artists and writers had fled as well.11 The Nazi periodical The Nettle depicted this emigration as "a triumph for the German nation."12" | Naomi Wolf | ||
| f0a9de7 | How might women act beyond the myth? Who can say? Maybe we will let our bodies wax and wane, enjoying the variations on a theme, and avoid pain because when something hurts us it begins to look ugly to us. Maybe we will adorn ourselves with real delight, with the sense that we are gilding the lily. Maybe the less pain women inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us. Perhaps we will forget to elicit admiration from.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 1f096f1 | The beauty myth generates low self-esteem for women and high profits for corporations as a result. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 8774df8 | All labor systems that depend on coercing a work force into accepting bad conditions and unfair compensation have recognized the effectiveness of keeping that work force exhausted to keep it from making trouble. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| e0cc256 | Society really doesn't care about women's appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have. Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will "be good," but to make sure that they will know they are being watched." | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 8569737 | 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 | ||
| 2ae2273 | But these facts are not very useful to women, because there is a double standard for "health" in men and women. Women are not getting it wrong when they smoke to lose weight. Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic in.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 7819738 | Some men, certainly, have used the beauty myth abusively against women, the way some men use their fists; but there is a strong consciousness among both sexes that the real agents enforcing the myth today are not men as individual lovers or husbands, but institutions, that depend on male dominance. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 8f240a4 | I have never before considered the feelings of a cow. I suppose they must not care for us at all.' 'They are only dumb beasts,' Laurence said, 'and such thought surely beyond them. Any animal will defend its life and young, but that is not the same as being a thinking, reasoning creature.' 'Only, how could one be certain?' Temeraire said. 'After all, if one wishes to be particularly dull, one might be like that fellow Salcombe, and say that.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| ee413d8 | No." Laurence said, "I mean to retire when we have returned. I have enough money to keep Temeraire now, and enough of a countenance to ask my brother to put us up on one of the farms." Or they might return to Australia, or to China. Temeraire has every right to ask that of him now that the war was won. Laurence did not mean to refuse him, he only hoped to go back to Wollaton Hall first and find a way to carry it with him somehow. He longed.. | temeraire | Naomi Novik | |
| b1de7f2 | The Dragon's tower is a long way in the other direction, a piece of chalk stuck in the base of the western mountains. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1c34879 | And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon. She | Naomi Novik | ||
| d1c27f4 | The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it | Naomi Novik | ||
| 8a3a408 | she's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them. | Naomi Novik |