"Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power."

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Source : Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.33, U of Minnesota Press

Ellen Willis

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“Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.”
“I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.”

Source : "Bailey Chase from TV’s Longmire: Changing Roles, Changing Perspectives". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.”

Source : "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.
“Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly”
“Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (2014). “Success”, p.817, Lulu Press, Inc
“Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.”

Source : "World Cup 2014 talking points: is Van Gaal lucky or is it a steel nerve?" by Nick Miller and Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2014.
“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.”

Source : Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media
“There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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