Quotes 4301 till 4320 of 6607.
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Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
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She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Faceboek (2014) -
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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