"Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control."

-- Naomi Wolf

#Self Esteem Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.”
“I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.”
“Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.”
“When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.”
“We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.”
“I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.”
“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
“Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.”

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