"Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us."

-- Bell Hooks

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“The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?'”
“And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable.”
“I know what it takes to get to the top.”

Source : "Harlequins' Kyle Sinckler: 'If I have not got fire in my belly I don't want to play'" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2017.
“It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.”
“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.”
“There's always one more way to do something-- your way.”
“I always act better when I'm able to curse.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.”

Source : Daniel J. Levitin (2006). “This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession”, p.36, Penguin

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