"For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets."

-- Audre Lorde

#Men Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
“We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.”
“To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.”
“Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.”

Source : Samuel Horsley (1827). “Sermons”, p.104
“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.”
“As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.”
“I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.”

Source : 2002 In the Observer, 24 Mar.
“The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.”

Source : Tom Turner (1996). “City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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