"We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better."

-- Janet Mock

#Inspiring Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”
“A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.”

Source : Barry Neil Kaufman (1996). “Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions”, Option Institute
“It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.”
“If they could say that to their patients, it could be a way to treatment, as in both working on it and preserving it. That could give a patient the faith to fully experience that beauty, without reliving the torment.”
“So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.”
“I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.”

Source : "Chelsea's Frank Lampard lauds Premier League's extra competitiveness" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2011.
“Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.”
“Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.”

Source : Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.7, Routledge

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