"What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?"

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Source : Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

Marilyn Frye

#Degrees Quotes #Separation Quotes #Form Quotes

“As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.”
“Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

Source : Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986
“A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.”
“Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!”
“for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.”

Source : Helen Waddell (2000). “The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages”, p.24, Courier Corporation
“If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.”

Source : Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing
“An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.”
“If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever He elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. John 6:39.”

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