Kay Yow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

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