"I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession."

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Source : Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.88, University of Illinois Press

Monique Wittig

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“But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we don't recognize and can't remember walking-or falling-there, and we're unsure how to get back or if we even want to.”
“As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.”

Source : "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with ‘Center Stage’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.
“Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.”

Source : Hanna Rosin (2012). “The End of Men: And the Rise of Women”, p.61, Penguin
“Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.”
“Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.”
“The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.”
“When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.”
“There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete situations they may lead to incompatible decisions. As an example, some people think that Christian ideas of sexual modesty suggest that homosexuals should be locked up, some people think that they mean that the churches should recongize gay marriages. But everyone believes in sexual modesty. I think there are universal moral truths, whether or not everyone accepts them. Here's one very low level but important one: it's very bad to torture people.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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