"Friends have ways of speaking without words."

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Source : Alice Dalgliesh (2012). “The Courage of Sarah Noble”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

Alice Dalgliesh

#Friendship Quotes #Way Quotes

“The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard it was a form of manipulation too. Subsequently, we've had to engage with a lot of things that we used to disavow as manipulation. We can't just dismiss everything as manipulations anymore, since the alternatives are constructions, too. From our perspective, from this corner of the planet, we have to admit that it's all constructed. There is absolutely no nature. Nature is one of the biggest constructions.”
“God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.”
“The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.”
“Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.”
“The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.”
“My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.”
“I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.”
“I really think it's important for people to let each other know exactly how they feel when it comes to love!”

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