"The gods come to us in the forms we recognize."

-- Deena Metzger

#God Quotes #Form Quotes

“Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.”
“A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.”
“Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here's some under the market which will, by the way, drop the market for everyone's housing. Go into the lower income neighborhoods and say, here's a business incentives, so that people can get jobs.”
“I have never been interested in specific roles.”
“Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish.”
“I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”
“...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.”
“I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.”

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