"We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community."

-- Tony Abbott

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“Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their supportiveness to themselves and to each other but never to the point of self-sacrifice.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”
“The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all, the horror beyond all horrors, sits at last upon my chest, permanently enfolding me in its great covering wings, black as ink, veined in Bees' purple. A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.”
“I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet.”
“I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.”
“Only night can make us whole again...”
“Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.”
“The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.”
“Things explain each other, not themselves.”

Source : George Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990). “The Selected Letters of George Oppen”, p.115, Duke University Press

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