"The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust."

-- Marina Warner

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“Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.”

Source : Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press
“In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?”

Source : "The case for free tampons?" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2014.
“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.”
“Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.”

Source : Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin
“It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.”
“I've directed independent film.”
“Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.”
“Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.”

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