"Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth."

-- Naomi Wolf

#Self Esteem Quotes #Names Quotes #Iron Quotes

“Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013
“I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.”
“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”

Source : "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.
“It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.”
“There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.”
“The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity”
“Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.”

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