"When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men."

-- Margo St. James

#Sex Quotes #Men Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“Itt iss Eevillâ€¦" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"â€¦ "And weâ€™re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "â€¦some of the best fighters have come from your own planetâ€¦" "Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Whoâ€™s spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
“I donâ€™t feel that Iâ€™m using technology. I donâ€™t feel that Iâ€™m wearing technology. I feel that I am technology.”
“Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag
“Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.”
“Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.455, The Floating Press
“How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.312, W. W. Norton & Company
“What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.”
“I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.”

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