"In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force"

-- Angela Carter

#Taken Quotes #World Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.”
“We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.”

Source : Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press
“One illusion is as good as another.”
“There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.”

Source : Benjamin Constant (1959). “Adolphe [translated from the French by”
“We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.”

Source : "Paolo Di Canio ridiculed as 'managerial charlatan' by Martin O'Neill" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2013.
“The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.”
“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”
“My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.”

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