"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

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Source : "The Last Poem I Loved: 'Modotti' by Adrienne Rich" by Laura Goode, therumpus.net. April 02, 2012.

Adrienne Rich

#Feminist Quotes #Connections Quotes #Force Quotes

“An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'”
“There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.”
“The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.”
“The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.255, Harvard University Press
“Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.”
“How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.”
“If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking,”

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