"Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated."

-- Starhawk

#Compassion Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.”
“I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.”
“The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.”
“Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.”

Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.”
“Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.”
“We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.”

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