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Adrienne von Speyr

"When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal."

-- Adrienne von Speyr

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“You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.”
“The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.39, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.”
“For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.”
“Those are the films I want to make. I don't want to make a film about, "Oh, those poor prostitutes!" Or "Oh, isn't it terrible in Chicago!" I want to make a film where people think, "Brenda's like me!"”
“I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.”
“the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.”
“Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.”

Source : "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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