"I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Laura Kipnis

#Sex Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.”
“Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.”
“Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.”
“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.”
“And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

Source : "Teaching and Learning in the Church". Jeffrey R. Holland's lecture at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. June, 2007.
“I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home...”
“If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.”
“Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surpriseâ€”and the faeriesâ€™ undoingâ€”they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she was able to discover a single faerieâ€™s true name.”

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