"Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling."

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Jeffrey Eugenides

#Feelings Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Language Quotes

“Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.”
“University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.”
“I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.”
“All who love are conspirators.”
“We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.”
“Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.”
“We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.”
“In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways.”

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