"When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell."

-- Betty Friedan

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Target Quotes

“I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.”
“Where your food comes from is as important as how you smoke it.”
“I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!”
“I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God!”
“I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.”
“Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.”
“So many horrid Ghosts.”
“Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.â€¨”

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