"A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in womenâ€™s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one."

-- Naomi Wolf

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“Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.”
“I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.”
“On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.”
“An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art.”

Source : "Poetry and the World". Book by Robert Pinsky, 1988.
“The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.”

Source : Interveiw with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.
“I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.”
“We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.”
“I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.”

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