#ale

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. ↗

— Lee Child

#authors #better #care #considerably #female

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#believe #creative #everyone #fortunate #found

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#energy #had #his #hunter #life

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#device #does #even #everyone #god

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted. ↗

— Linford Christie

#because #been #britain #compete #enough

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#mandate #palestinian #peace #point #really

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#difficulty #disturb #feeble #gales #great

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. ↗

— John Keats

#aye #bliss #endless #i #kiss

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#because #bond #bra #carried #certainly

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#believe #eye #eye for an eye #form #freedom