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| 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 | ||
| 90b6fd2 | No, it is just pyrite, but it is very pretty, is it not? I suppose you are one of those hoarding creatures," Laurence said, looking affectionately up at Temeraire; many dragons had an inborn fascination with jewels or precious metals. "I am afraid I am not rich enough a partner for you; I will not be able to give you a heap of gold to sleep on." "I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Te.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| ba795c5 | Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here. | Naomi Novik | ||
| db4b6b9 | though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, . | Naomi Novik | ||
| 6159aa1 | They moved out of Jena early the next morning, with Prince Louis and the rest of the advance guard, for the town of Saalfeld, | Naomi Novik | ||
| 9bc5966 | it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 5fef705 | He made her give him gold just to live, as if she belonged to him because he was strong enough to kill her. My father was strong enough to kill me but that did not mean I belonged to him. | Naomi Novik | ||
| ef6d760 | Oh, Hammond-intolerable, but he will see the job through. | history mission | Naomi Novik | |
| bc909a8 | When they had dismounted, he indulged himself in a shudder of his whole body. "That is more than I undertake to do again!' --this to the admiral, in reproachful tones. "Those two monstrously large beasts! Going right up to them like that and dangling their captains in front of them just as if to say, look what I have got, ha ha! I am all astonishment they did not leap upon me at once. I hope they did not get a clear look at me. If they ever.. | temeraire | Naomi Novik | |
| 6647a6e | He looked at me, baffled and for the first time uncertain, as though he had stumbled into something, unprepared. His long narrow hands were cradled around mine, both of us holding the rose together. Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song. I was abruptly too hot, and strangely conscious of myself. I pulled my hands free. | Naomi Novik | ||
| f7bb92e | What I mean--what we mean by it is--it's like credit," I said, suddenly thinking of my grandfather. "Gifts, and thanks--we'll accept from someone what they can give then, and make return to them when it's wanted, if we can. And there are some cheats, and some debts aren't paid, but others are paid with interest to make up for it, and we can all do the more for not having to pay as we go." | Naomi Novik | ||
| a984d2e | When they had dismounted, he indulged himself in a shudder of his whole body. "That is more than I undertake to do again!' --this to the admiral, in reproachful tones. "Those two monstrously large beasts! Going right up to them like that and dangling their captains in front of them just as if to say, look what I have got, ha ha! I am all astonishment they did not leap upon me at once. I hope they did not get a clear look at me. If they ever.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 4a8e95d | magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and somehow grew to fill it. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 69ff944 | she didn't even have time to scream, just gave a startled "Oh!" and was gone," | Naomi Novik | ||
| 63692f3 | But my father's irritation told me otherwise. I had been a disappointment to him from the beginning, my mother having taken an excessive number of years to produce me, and shortly afterwards miscarrying the overdue son and dying with him. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1f99d7b | The Magnati have all been summoned for the funeral, and I'll be announcing our betrothal once they're gathered. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 6e25523 | including one gentleman who had been introduced as a poet, although Laurence could not believe this had been an accurate translation: more likely the man was a clerk of some sort. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 696cf69 | I knew it wasn't going to help me. It was a warm kind presence in my hands, but with the kindness of a friend who sits with you in comfort by the fire and can't change what's wrong. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3eab7aa | Laurence did not let anger go, but dismissed it to return later; the battle was not over. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 56f50a8 | I wanted to scream, to weep. I wanted to drag my hand across the world and wipe it. | uprooted | Naomi Novik | |
| edffcba | a girl had supposedly disguised herself as a man to fight in her father's stead, had become companion to a military dragon and saved the empire by winning a great battle; | Naomi Novik | ||
| bc07c07 | I had roots, too, but not like that. I could be carefully dug up, and shaken loose, and transplanted into a king's castle, or a tower built of marble--unhappily, perhaps, but I could survive. | Naomi Novik | ||
| a2f8091 | He turned a cold certain look over them like the sweep of a scythe. "For however many of them will be left," he said." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 8955c32 | If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault and not theirs. | temeraire patriotism | Naomi Novik | |
| b61c07a | We leave tonight," he continued, very cold and calm, "and we take the eggs with us." | Naomi Novik | ||
| ea6a3a7 | There were forest depths in her eyes, green and unending. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 60e9cd3 | Feiglings!" Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons." | Naomi Novik |