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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1568752 | Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays. | Aphorisms | ||
| 96b80a2 | One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. | Aphorisms | ||
| 1ba0c60 | Aphorism: what is worth quoting from the soul's dialogue with itself. | Aphorisms | ||
| 976fbc2 | The fragment, like a fraction, reminds us of its foundation in totality. | Aphorisms | ||
| cc21446 | An aphorism is a many-faceted observation: speculative and not necessarily witty. | Aphorisms | ||
| d94f26e | Ymir's body is divided so that everything, even his eyebrows, were used in the creation of the world; the four dwarfs who hold up the sky; the wolves that chase the sun and moon; the giant's eyes that are tossed up into heaven and turned into stars: these and a host of other particulars become narrative elements within the cycle. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| 06430cd | Some things in our lives, we think about, we hope for, we dream of, we half believe. But some we just know. And what I know, Laura, is that if you practise and learn to play this instrument, the day will come when angels stop and listen to you. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| 02043a5 | Be generous, be spirited, and you'll lead a happy life. | happy-life spirited | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| b3cae70 | Because you know something won't ever happen, it doesn't stop you longing for it. I know I'll never be able to speak or sing with my own voice. I don't know why. I wish I did. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| c3c9c5a | That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies! | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| 5f69f0f | Playing in an orchestra is completely different to playing on my own. Sometimes I played, sometimes listened; instead of waiting my turn, I sometimes interrupted another player, sometimes I argued, sometimes agreed. My flute is my mouthpiece and I felt as if I was actually joining in a conversation. | orchestra | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| e30f010 | Beware of cultivating this delicate art. | Aphorisms | ||
| 6e6302d | Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| 3e13e3f | This superstitious, family-oriented existence is the background to 'The Lay of Loddfafnir' and the whole of (Myth and Note25). This great compendium of aphorisms and advice on right conduct offers a commonsensical and sober (though sometimes witty) picture of the day to day life of the Norsemen, and it is a far cry from the heady image of Vikings on the rampage. Value life itself; censure naivete; cherish and celebrate friendships; beware.. | vikings | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| 7189748 | Since men who become embittered never win respect or admiration, those who sought fame did not rail at the undoubted hardship of their lives and the inevitability of death. Rather, they endured it or, even better, laughed at it. This accounts for the ironic tone in the fabric of the myths and explains, for example, the reaction of the gods when Tyr sacrificed his hand (Myth 7) in the interests of binding the wolf Fenrir. Men and women expec.. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| 0d8355d | Yet, in H.R Ellis Davidson's wise words: Reading the myths, we can identify the Norseman's spirit and confidence, his boundless curiosity, extreme bravery, clannish loyalty, generosity and discipline; we can also detect his arrogance and lack of compassion, his cunning if not treachery (amply reflected in the figure of Loki), his ruthlessness and his cruelty. | viking-spirit vikings | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| f1b664f | As often as not, a man who sticks at home knows next to nothing about his guest. | homebodies travel-experience | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| 10fc6f2 | Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| c241f6e | The treachery of a friend is worse than the treachery of an enemy. | friend treachery | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| 3d60dc3 | Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice. | choice | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| 7f23976 | In all this flurry of false scientism, the central question went unaddressed: if the possession of a penis and outsize brain were the distinguishing marks of the lords of creation, why was the world not rules by whales? | history humor | Rosalind Miles | |
| 0f0a68e | It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. | Anne Sexton | ||
| 421351a | For there is much to do, amounting in fact to a remaking of modern society. All democratic experiments, all revolutions, all demands for equality have so far, in every instance, stopped short of sexual equality. Every society has in its prestige structures a series of subtle, interacting codes of dominance that always, everywhere, finally rank men higher than women. Nowhere has any society successfully dispensed with the age-old sex-role di.. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 73215e7 | One famous female Sufi mystic and religious teacher was Rabi-'ah al-' Ada-wiyyah (712-801), who after a girlhood in slavery fled to the desert, where she rejected all offers of marriage and devoted herself to prayer and scholarship. Although the most distinguished of women Sufis, Rabi-'ah was not unique, since Sufism gave all women the chance to attain a holy dignity | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 7c01623 | Rabi-'ah's achievement built on a tradition of female literacy, scholarship and intellectual creativity reaching back to the dawn of thought. Countless ancient myths ascribe the birth of language to women or goddesses, in a ritual formulation of the primeval truth that the first words any human being hears are the mother's. In Indian mythology the Vedic goddess Vac means "language"; she personifies the birth of speech, and is represented as.. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| e794890 | Every one of the "great" belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women's inferiority as an article of faith. Individual" | Rosalind Miles | ||
| afcafea | She loved your mother', Taliesin said gently. 'This is her farewell.' As he spoke, a chanted melody began inside the chamber, a song without words. Yet it spoke of the beauty in the heart of the flame, of the passing glory of the white bird on the wing, and the blossom of the sea spray under the shining prow. It sang of a mother with her baby, of the hard love between men and women, and the gentle rest that comes at last to all. | farewell grief | Rosalind Miles | |
| ce1519c | Those eyes that hold the hand of every heart, Those hands that hold the heart of every eye, That eye, that hand, that wit, that heavenly sense, All these do show my mistresses' excellence. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| c56bc28 | But fall? No. What is it, love? If not a fall, is it a hunger? The appetite casting around for strange meat not yet encountered, hungry for what it does not know yet, but will recognize at the first scent in the air? I know one thing: No one tumbles straight into their greatest love, the great love of their life. For there are many kinds of love- maiden love, flesh love, flesh hunger, then the deepest love hunger- and all these must be tri.. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 090ebbf | The tongue, the Chinese say,without drawing blood. | Anne Sexton | ||
| ac448dc | Now what is Love, I pray thee tell? It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell. It is perhaps that saucy bell That tolls all into heaven or hell- And this is Love, as I hear tell. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| df87a5e | Napoleon pronounced, "the husband must possess the absolute power and right to say to his wife, 'Madam, you shall not go to the theater, you shall not receive such and such a person; for the children you will bear shall be mine.' " Equally, every woman "must be made to realize that on leaving the tutelage of her family, she passes under that of her husband."13 To this end, the Code Napoleon equipped every husband with extraordinary, unprece.. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 7b99ecf | Every gain, every success for women is taken to mean that men are being cheated and denigrated. To me it's healthier to turn the question around. While women were straining every muscle, nerve and bone for the last thirty years, while they labored to remake themselves, their lives and the world, what were twentieth-century men doing all this time? And how long will it take them to join in and support us? | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 5634ae1 | There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. | Aphorisms | ||
| 6bbdfb1 | I}t is more common that people are monogamous not by choice, but by default. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 286e2e8 | Well-meaning friends suggest that I should drop the word "feminist," and perhaps the entire concept, because feminism is so "old hat." Young women today have lost interest in feminism because they believe it's antisex and that all feminists are man haters. Let me tell you something, girlfriends. That's exactly what the powers-that-be want us to think and do." | Tristan Taormino | ||
| b0cd55b | Trailblazers in feminist Porn include female filmmakers like Tristan Taormino and Erika Lust, who make certain that their actors are treated fairly and respectfully. They create sexy, sensual visuals and storylines, and always make certain their actors have chemistry, connection, and real orgasms. | feminist-porn porn | Elle Chase | |
| 5868068 | In order for women to progress, we must question all authority, be willing to challenge any rule aimed at controlling our sexual behavior, and avoid doing business as usual, thereby maintaining the status quo. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 9c646e0 | The basic principle of S/M was that all sexual activity between one or more adults had to be consensual and required a verbal negotiation, followed by an agreement between the players. All my years of romantic sex, when we tried to read each other's minds, were basically nonconsensual sex. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 7f3b42b | LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH LET US TO THE END DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 87b7396 | Buxton says that when one partner in a marriage comes out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, about a third of the couples break up right away, a third break up after about two years, and a third stay married indefinitely.3 We don't know a whole lot about that last third--the more than 30 percent of mixed-orientation marriages that remain intact. From the research I've read, many of them are negotiating open relationships, but few consider themse.. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 6f76738 | One study showed that an individual in an open relationship tends to be "individualistic, an academic achiever, creative, nonconforming, stimulated by complexity and chaos, inventive, relatively unconventional and indifferent to what others said, concerned about his/her own personal values and ethical systems, and willing to take risks to explore possibilities." Because open relationships require well-developed relationship skills, people i.. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| f1cf833 | Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. | Aphorisms | ||
| 36add5c | Buxton says that when one partner in a marriage comes out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, about a third of the couples break up right away, a third break up after about two years, and a third stay married indefinitely.3 We don't know a whole lot about that last third--the more than 30 percent of mixed-orientation marriages that remain intact. From the research I've read, many of them are negotiating open relationships, but few consider themse.. | Tristan Taormino |