"The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere."

-- Susan Cooper

#Fall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She thus has for him a double, contradictory significance; she is the subject of his bawdry and the subject of his romance.”
“I think normative or binary lenses for seeing bodies often crush or delegitimize other felt physical experiences of being and desiring. I've found that such inadequate ways of understanding bodies can be - but aren't always - based on biological perspectives.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ***** of himself.”
“The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement â€¦every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being”

Source : Daria Halprin (2003). “The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor, and Meaning”, p.17, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
“The human condition: lost in thought.”
“Every single person wants to do it, don't hate me because I had the guts to follow my heart!”
“Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.”
“I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.”

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