#ali

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#families #family #italian #jewish #then

As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral like a crown on the head of a city. In its white walls every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -"No Moon Tonight ↗

— Don Charlwood

#inspirational #nationalism #wwii #inspirational

Social conservatives seem to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on it than from straight ones who opt out of it. ↗

— Margaret Talbot

#homosexuality #marriage #same-sex-marriage #social-conservatism #marriage

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#husbands #inequality #inferiority #marriage #matrimony

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

#aristotle #awesomeness #consistency #excellence #habit

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#homosexuality #masculinity #patriarchy #sex #violence-against-women

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#philosophy #men

The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#imprinting #sex #sexuality #men

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#does #opinion #other #people #reality

We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love…embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #journaling #love #overcoming #pages