"Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#Sex Quotes #Reality Quotes #Doctrine Quotes

“Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.”
“...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.”
“I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.”
“It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does.”
“People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.”
“The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.”
“In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.”

Source : Edward John Trelawny (1835). “Adventures of a Younger Son”, p.471
“I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.”

Source : Source: tech.blorge.com

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