"Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality"

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Source : Iris Marion Young (2005). “On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

Iris Marion Young

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“I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!”
“There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess”
“I am sorie God made me so comely.”

Source : Nicholas Udall (1869). “Roister Doister: Written, Probably Also Represented, Before 1553”, p.16
“The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.”

Source : Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.142, Morgan James Publishing
“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.324, Penguin
“I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts Â— making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint Â— well, a saint who curses.”
“You're messing up my highlights.”
“There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.”

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