"Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing."

-- Laura Riding

#Communication Quotes #Self Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?”
“The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.136, Penguin
“Organic farming is personal.”
“Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.55, Bantam
“If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.”
“Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.”
“Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.”

Source : Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”

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