"If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography."

-- Germaine Greer

#Real Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Self Quotes

“I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.”
“A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.”
“How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.”
“Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage
“He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.”
“I want to become the player that the offense gameplans around, that the offense fears coming into the game.”
“People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.”

Source : Interview with Susan Sarandon, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
“Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had never entered it but from it he could see her with absolute clarity.”

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