"... both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ..."

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Source : Dorothy Gilman (1967). “Uncertain Voyage”

Dorothy Gilman

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“All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something.”
“The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
“Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.”
“So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.”
“For the Spartans, it wasnâ€™t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”
“We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.”
“Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.”

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“I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.”

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