#ages

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#been #bench #bringing #dock #down

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered... ↗

— Tim Perkins

#artist #author #childrens-books #fantasy #illustrator

Darkness was all they knew, and eventually they thought it was the light. ↗

— A.J. Deus

#age

I was not meant to be an atheist. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#age

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today ↗

— Gillian Hovell

#britain #bronze-age #dark-ages #history #hovell

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia

Holding the power did strange things to my mind. In just a few moments, I became familiar with the power itself, with its history, and with the ways it might be used. Yet, this knowledge was different from experience, or even ability to use that power. For instance, I knew how to move a planet in the sky. Yet, I didn't know where to place it so that it wouldn't be too close, or too far, from the sun. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#age

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#dark-ages #king-author #merlin #wizards #age

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#cages #life #rage #rats #anger