"The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Feminist Quotes #Boat Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
“When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.”

Source : David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.22, SPCK
“Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.”
“Any kind of sequence when you have to express physical space and time can be difficult to story-tell because, if you're sitting there watching it like it's a play or something, your mind can track what's going on, or if you're watching an actual fight you can kind of track what's going on, but as soon as you have to start telling the story and tracking for the audience, it becomes much more complicated.”

Source : Source: www.fanbolt.com
“The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.”
“The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

Source : Source: souljourns.net

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