"Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior."

-- Jessica Valenti

#Home Quotes #Men Quotes #Helping Quotes

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
“'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of me.' As I said it, a totally inappropriate picture popped into my mind. 'What are you feeling?' Jake's breath warm against my face, my bruised lips tingling from his kisses. 'Tell me what it feels like with me inside you.'”
“The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.”
“Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.93, Penguin
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

Source : "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.
“Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then theyâ€™ll turn out to be right.”
“It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.”
“I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.”

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