"Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality."

-- Camille Paglia

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“The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.”
“But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.”
“We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.”
“For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977”
“I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.”
“For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.”

Source : Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company
“Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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