"The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow."

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Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

Susan Faludi

#Voice Quotes #Forever Quotes #Body Quotes

“The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.”

Source : Wade Davis (2009). “Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures”, p.64, D & M Publishers
“We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.”
“Y'all ***** ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.”
“The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.”

Source : "Piccola antologia del pensiero breve" by Franco Fontanini, Liguori Editore, (p. 12), 2007.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

Source : 1986 I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,'How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later'.
“If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.”
“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)”

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