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“A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.”
― How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
― How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
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“Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it, exclaimed, 'The arrant feminist! She says that men are snobs!' The exclamation, to me so surprising - for why was Miss West an arrant feminist for making a possibly true if uncomplimentary statement about the other sex? - was not merely the cry of wounded vanity; it was a protest against some infringement of his power to believe in himself. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
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“He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!”
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“You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story.
Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love. I'll
bet you a hundred to one a woman wrote that junky romantic trash!"
Just a minute ago I'd despised that author for bringing about such a
miserable ending, then there I went, rushing to the defense. "T. M.
Ellis could very well have been a man! Though I doubt any woman writer
in the nineteenth century had much chance of being published, unless
she used her initials, or a man's name. And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love? And it seems to me, that Raymond was far more
mushy-minded than Lily!”
― Flowers in the Attic
Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love. I'll
bet you a hundred to one a woman wrote that junky romantic trash!"
Just a minute ago I'd despised that author for bringing about such a
miserable ending, then there I went, rushing to the defense. "T. M.
Ellis could very well have been a man! Though I doubt any woman writer
in the nineteenth century had much chance of being published, unless
she used her initials, or a man's name. And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love? And it seems to me, that Raymond was far more
mushy-minded than Lily!”
― Flowers in the Attic
“What are you grinning at?' Nal muttered. As if in response, the gull spread its wings and opened its shadow over the miniature ruins of the castle - too huge, Nal thought, and vaguely humanoid in shape - and then it flew off, laboring heavily against the wind. In the soft moonlight this created the disturbing illusion that the bird had hitched itself to Nal's shadow and was pulling his darkness from him.”
― Vampires in the Lemon Grove
― Vampires in the Lemon Grove
“...We were pulling into the next station, when the woman suddenly got to her feet and made a move to squeeze past me. As her knees made contact with mine, she turned towards me. Her eyes locked straight onto mine, her eyelids pinned back, with a look I could only describe as sheer dread. In the next second, deep tram-lines formed between her eyebrows and her expression shifted. It was as if she was silently imploring me, entreating me. To do what? I had no idea. I was immobile, her gaze pressing me into my seat by some centrifugal force and I held her stare, unsure of how to react. Just as swiftly, she dropped her eyes and the moment passed. With one final glance behind her, she was swallowed up in the bodies at the door.
She was getting off. Something wasn’t right.”
― Girl on a Train
She was getting off. Something wasn’t right.”
― Girl on a Train
“Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority - it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney - for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination - over other people.”
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“It's not at all helpful for some white feminists to make demands of women of color out of a one-sided idea of sisterhood and call that solidarity. Sisterhood is a mutual relationship between equals. And as anyone with sisters can tell you, it's not uncommon for sisters to fight or to hurt each other's feelings. Family whether biological or not is supposed to support you. But that doesn't mean no one can ever tell you that you're wrong.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.”
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“Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.”
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“To those who stand naked in the holy wilderness of life, embracing all shadows of self, I bow to you.”
― Back to Grace
― Back to Grace
“You, Madam, have Beauty to charm them all into Silence; a Look, a smile will disarm their Malice, and a Frown awe the whole Sex.”
― The Noble Slaves
― The Noble Slaves
“Authors, now is the time to get your message, your story, your book into the hands of readers around the world
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― On Toby's Terms:
BookasaBusiness.com”
― On Toby's Terms:
“, I asked my fellow debaters to share something that made them feel hopeful about the US. I gave the answer I always give: “This is a nation of dreamers.” As bad as things get sometimes, we never stop imagining a better way forward…”
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“When will we wake,
when will we see,
the real oppressors' hypocrisy?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
when will we see,
the real oppressors' hypocrisy?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“They call us forgotten.
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“We are Kush.
We are Meroë.
But they won’t teach you this in school.
They won’t name the ancient rule,
They won’t tell you how far we reached.
Only how little we’re allowed to teach.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
We are Meroë.
But they won’t teach you this in school.
They won’t name the ancient rule,
They won’t tell you how far we reached.
Only how little we’re allowed to teach.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“We are not myth.
We are the math and the original path.
They speak of Egypt, forget our kings.
They show you Giza, hide Meroë’s crown.
Where two hundred pyramids
still look down.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
We are the math and the original path.
They speak of Egypt, forget our kings.
They show you Giza, hide Meroë’s crown.
Where two hundred pyramids
still look down.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“I am Sudan. And I do not beg.
I carry warriors in my legs.
I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame.
I was never small, just wrongly named.
In every land, I stand tall.
You cannot exile what built it all.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
I carry warriors in my legs.
I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame.
I was never small, just wrongly named.
In every land, I stand tall.
You cannot exile what built it all.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“Often, refugees think the worst is over as they arrive at their new homes, only to find new struggles
emerges under a different sun.”
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emerges under a different sun.”
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“A border does not make one holy.
A passport does not make one pure.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
A passport does not make one pure.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“Lips dripping candor where they once held hesitation. Whispers in defiance of lies set for damnation.”
― Choosing Weakness
― Choosing Weakness
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