"Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be."

-- Kim Chernin

#Moving Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Weight Quotes

“Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.”
“Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle ...”
“The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?”
“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.”
“As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.”
“We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015
“Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 31, 1934.

You may also like:

Edgar Lee Masters
Poet
Elizabeth Fishel
Journalist
Geneen Roth
Writer
Hilde Bruch
Linda Pastan
Poet
Susan Bordo
Philosopher
Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist