"I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot."

-- Helena Christensen

#Ocean Quotes #Sharks Quotes #Broken Quotes

“The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.”

Source : "On Mother Kelly's doorstep" by Colin Richardson, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2006.
“End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.”
“I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.”
“...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.”
“The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad ShÄmlu was a man was important to his work as a poet. Basically, gender shouldn't be viewed as an advantage in art. If a poem or a piece of writing is good, what difference does it make whether it's by a woman or a man? And, if it's bad, why should its writer's gender make it good?”
“God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.”
“The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.”
“I think sex work gets over-mystified and overcomplicated because it's about sexuality, and women's sexuality in general. What strikes me when I look at sex worker organizations and sex worker movements, in the US especially, is that they're so in alignment with other longstanding progressive causes. If anything, sex workers have been at the forefront of some of these causes. There have always been sex workers at the forefront of social movements.”

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