"Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

#Reality Quotes #Men Quotes #Names Quotes

“But to me, to be original is to be yourself.”
“We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.”
“Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.”

Source : Edward Carpenter “The Intermediate Sex”, Routledge
“I'm the git in the family.”
“Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.”
“Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.”
“If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.”
“In school, I was an underachiever.”

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