"We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women."

-- Gloria Steinem

#World Quotes #Changing The World Quotes #Fit Quotes

“The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.”
“You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.”

Source : Suzette Haden Elgin (1984). “Native Tongue”, p.284, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.”
“I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.”
“The pitch would normally be low, but my ball starts carrying and stays on a sustained plane. Everyone always complains - 'that ball is low' - but then you go back and look at the tape, and it's right there. My catchers tell me, and the hitters tell me, that the ball stays true flight the last five or six feet.”
“Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
“The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.”

Source : "Jacobson's Organ and The Remarkable Nature Of Smell" by Lyall Watson, www.nytimes.com. 2000.
“I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.”

Source : "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". Excerpts from instant messenger chats, www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

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