Gail Dines famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.
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Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
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Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.
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The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that look very little like sex but a lot like cruelty. The only solution to this is a movement that is fierce in its critique of sexual exploitation and steadfast in its determination to fight for what is rightfully ours.
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The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed ***** online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.
-- Gail Dines
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
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I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
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The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
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