"The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality."

-- Andrea Dworkin

#Character Quotes #Personality Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.”
“It is a great bond to dislike the same things.”
“The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.10, New Directions Publishing
“These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.”
“I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.”
“while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.”
“War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.”
“I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope thereâ€™s mystery and poetry in your life â€” not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.”

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