"We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women."

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Source : Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

Katha Pollitt

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“A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.79
“We stare into each other's eyes and softly kiss speaking and saying more with the movement of our lips and the tips of our fingers than words will allow us to say. Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.”
“The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.”
“If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.”
“We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.”
“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”
“Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.”
“I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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