"Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Friends Quotes #Men Quotes #Males Quotes

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
“As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.”
“The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.”
“I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.”

Source : "Lesley Gore, Feminist Icon" by Amanda Marcotte, www.slate.com. February 17, 2015.
“power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.”
“What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.”

Source : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”

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