"I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life."

-- Carolina Herrera

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“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/femaleâ€¦In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness”

Source : Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.19, Springer
“Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.”
“If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility.”
“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.”
“Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.”
“Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.”
“Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.”
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2011). “From Dictatorship to Democracy”, p.26, Profile Books

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