"Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health."

-- Michael Gurian

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”

Source : Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer
“It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone”
“I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.”

Source : "Shane Warne: I haven't had surgery.. my new look is the radiant glow of love" by Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 02, 2011.
“Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.”
“My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.”

Source : "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.
“More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.”
“I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.”
“[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.”

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