Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Men #Vanity #Morality
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Reading #Hunger #Pleasure
Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Secret #Bedroom #Glamour
Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Culture #Guardian
Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Dream #Real #Artist
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Men #Print
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Women #Mean #Practice
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
-- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Gossip #Bears #Flavor

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Mundus vult decipi'â€”the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple thÃ©orie, elle est une vie supÃ©rieure, dont la moralitÃ© fait partie intÃ©grante - une vie vouÃ©e au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
The great enemy of morality is indifference.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

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