1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
5754
5755
5756
5757
5758
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f6f080 | When somebody manages to project a lot of strength and a lot of warmth, we say they're charismatic and magnetic, we want to be with that person, we want to be that person,' said Neffinger. | magnetic | Rebecca Traister | |
| 19363ea | White patriarchal minority rule was established by America's founders when they encoded slavery into our founding documents and built our electoral apparatus around its protection. It was strengthened when they granted white men the franchise and violently guarded that exclusivity for almost a century, ensuring that it was only they who created and controlled the courts, the businesses, the economic systems, who wrote the legislation and cr.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 53ca1d8 | As another philosopher, Myisha Cherry, has recently argued, "I want to convince you that there are types of anger that are not bad." | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 2d60b91 | is a loud and livid objection to the kinds of control that have long been in place in a nation built by white men who, when they angrily broke free of imperialist control themselves, promptly encoded protections of liberty and independence only for themselves, building their new nation on slavery and the oppression of women, on the legal and civic subjugation of that nation's majority. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 02c1b38 | The Women's March on January 21, 2017 was the biggest one-day political protest in this country's history, and it was staged by angry women. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 80cd94a | Stone kept her last name, and generations of women who have done the same have been referred to as "Lucy Stoners." | Rebecca Traister | ||
| b95b657 | I returned again and again to a proclamation made by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, nearly two centuries earlier, that "if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression." -- | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 9c5ff1e | The ability to narratively flip the dynamics of aggression and abuse--to view the less powerful as a menace to the aggressors--has been key to how white patriarchal structures have persisted. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 22a9f7d | The violence done by the more powerful entity--the police and the state--to the less powerful entity is often so normalized, so banal, so expected as to not even be discernible, not even visible. But angry resistance to that violence, coming from the less powerful and directed at the more powerful, is automatically understood as disruptive, dangerous, electric. The upset of power dynamics creates chaos. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 1da6c61 | The very fact that she had carefully established close relationships with big donors and garnered the support of bigwigs made her part of a political elite and vulnerable to the anti-establishment rhetoric of the men she'd wind up running against; it kept her from being understood or celebrated as the outsider that, as a member of a gender that had been historically denied access to executive power, she was. In figuring out how a woman migh.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 97537b2 | Consider that the white men in the Rust Belt are rarely told that their anger is bad for them. Rather, and correctly, we understand that what's bad for them are the conditions that have provoked their frustration: the loss of jobs and stature, the shortage of affordable health care, day-care, the scourge of drugs. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 248f410 | The adoring portrayal of an older woman like RBG as both fierce and knowing, points out the feminist author Rebecca Traister, is "a crucial expansion of the American imagination with regard to powerful women." For too long, Traister says, older women have been reduced in our cultural consciousness to "nanas, bubbes" or "ballbusters, nutcrackers, and bitches." | Irin Carmon | ||
| 35c3fb6 | The vitriolic hatred of Clinton was sometimes only slightly less muted on the left, in part because of the sticky truth of her position: she did have power, she was one of the exceptional women to have risen within a white patriarchal capitalist system that hadn't been built for her, and she'd risen in part by participating in it. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| db61846 | We must train ourselves to even be able to see and hear anger from women and understand it not only as rational, but as politically weighty. It is, in fact, an anger on behalf of the nation's suppressed majority and therefore especially frightening and combustible because of the threat it poses to the minority. We are primed to hear the anger of men as stirring, downright American, as our national lullaby, and primed to hear the sound of wo.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 492c48b | This relative parity in coverage, the both-sides-ism that defined media coverage of the race, was a reflection of the lie at the center of everything. Because the reality was that Trump's racist and sexist attitudes were not in fact out of line with contemporary assumptions; they were not disqualifying. They were measured on the same scale that weighed Clinton's real but politically ordinary flaws, because on some level, his biases were sti.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| e8d34ea | Clinton's left critics would often comment that she'd lucked out in her draw of opponents, that she'd won--and then blown--a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to run against such a cartoonishly awful man. What this view failed to acknowledge was that it was the opposite of both luck and accident that this man had been summoned, elected by his party to face down the first woman who was running to be president, the woman we'd been assured would .. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| ef3ec43 | Of course, single people are lonely. Of course. We have all been lonely. For moments, for days, for endless, chilled seasons of sequestration. For some women, the loneliness may stem from, or be exacerbated by, the drain of having to do everything for yourself. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 58f6f71 | Perhaps the reason that women's anger is so broadly denigrated--treated as so ugly, so alienating, and so irrational--is because we have known all along that with it came the explosive power to upturn the very systems that have sought to contain it. What becomes clear, when we look to the past with an eye to the future, is that the discouragement of women's anger--via silencing, erasure, and repression--stems from the correct understanding .. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| ffcf26d | Consider that the white men in the Rust Belt are rarely told that their anger is bad for them. Rather, and correctly, we understand that what's bad for them are the conditions that have provoked their frustration: the loss of jobs and stature, the shortage of affordable healthcare and daycare, the scourge of drugs. We understand their anger to be politically instructive, to point us toward problems that must be addressed. What we all--in th.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| c40ee04 | The connection women were feeling in shared fury was its own home, its own reward, its own community, and for some the pushback to their activism, the losses it incurred--money, domestic comforts, relationships built in other circumstances, based on earlier expectations for comportment--were not worth retreating for. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| c3c1f48 | calls for civility are designed to protect the powerful by casting them as victims. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| b9cdb5f | Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face! | Karen Cushman | ||
| 6ef92a9 | I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say. | Karen Cushman | ||
| 19eaf6a | 19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know | Karen Cushman | ||
| e6a63f4 | Alyce," she breathed. Alyce sounded clean and smart. You could love someone maned Alyce. She looked back at the face in the water. "This is me, Alyce." It was right. So the newly called Alyce shifted the pack on her shoulders, and with her head back and bare feet solid on the ground, she headed back to the midwife's cottage and never noticed when it grew dark, for heat and light were within her." | Karen Cushman | ||
| c0a8436 | in the context of 1881] "Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need-" "What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while." | Karen Cushman | ||
| fca9686 | Under which head do you class those who are at sea? | Anacharsis | ||
| d2f4446 | My country is a disgrace to me, but you are a disgrace to your country. | Anacharsis | ||
| ef69859 | Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing. | Anacharsis | ||
| 6318778 | A view of the unseemly actions of drunken men is the most effectual dissuasive from wine. | Anacharsis | ||
| 4388d64 | I knew what was wrong with me, but I could not correct it. The words and actions of white people were baffling signs to me. I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it. Misreading the reactions of whites around me made me say and do the wrong things. In my dealing with whites I was conscious only of what was happening at a given moment. I had to keep remembering what othe.. | Richard Wright | ||
| b3cec70 | In shaking hands I was doing something that I was to do countless times in the years to come: acting in conformity with what others expected of me even though, by the very nature and form of life, I did not and could not share their spirit. | Richard Wright | ||
| e1db51b | military historian Richard Holmes. | Clare Wright | ||
| 356e975 | To-day belongs to me,To-morrow who can tell. | Anacreon | ||
| 66932ae | Problem is, finding a killer in the woods is a lot like trying to find a needle in a haystack. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 673ada2 | These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional life; they were a culture, a creed, a religion. The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with the daily environment in which I lived; and my reactions to this hostility fed upon itself, grew or diminished according to the news that reached .. | Richard Wright | ||
| a2d5dd4 | My mother's suffering grew into as symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving, the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread; the meaningless pain and the endless suffering. Her life set the emotional tone of my life, colored the men and women I was to meet in the future, conditioned my relation to events that ha.. | Richard Wright | ||
| c49b9f8 | At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffer.. | Richard Wright | ||
| 4b57959 | Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as the white man, strove to bury within his heart his awareness of this difference because it made him lonely and afraid. Heated by whites and being an organic part of the culture that hated him, the black man grew in turn to hate in himslef that which others hated in him. But pride would make him hide his self-hate, for .. | Richard Wright | ||
| 6c6485e | I did not act in this fashion deliberately; I did not prefer this kind of relationship with people. I wanted a life in which there was a constant oneness of feeling with others, in which the basic emotions of life were shared, in which common memory formed a common past, in which collective hope reflected a national future. But I knew that no such thing was possible in my environment. The only ways in which I felt that my feelings could go .. | Richard Wright | ||
| 95f5c53 | 176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup. | richard-wright winter-rain-at-night | Richard Wright | |
| 24da22a | I picked up a pencil and held it over a sheet of white paper, but my feelings stood in the way of my words. Well, I would wait, day and night, until I knew what to say. Humbly now, with no vaulting dream of achieving a vast unity, I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal. I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if a.. | Richard Wright | ||
| 9615d4a | At twenty-one, Richard Wright was not the world-famous author he would eventually be. But poor and black, he decided he would read and no one could stop him. Did he storm the library and make a scene? No, not in the Jim Crow South he didn't. Instead, he forged a note that said, "Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by HL Mencken?" (because no one would write that about themselves, right?), and checked them out wit.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f667abd | If you want to know why the "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the answer is that they're offering the modernist version of the good old-fashioned theological term "assurance." They are assuring anxious ex-believers that the nightmare of small-minded and stultifying "religion" is gone" | N.T. Wright |