"Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings."

-- Sheila Jeffreys

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“I do not believe in God, but I believe God is manâ€™s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. â€¦ Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal”
“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but Iâ€™ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. Iâ€™ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.”
“I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.”

Source : Robert Pape (2005). “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, p.4, Random House
“See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!”
“I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.”
“Seriously, when's the last time you saw me wear shorts?”
“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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