#double

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#books #character #clichés #conduct #double-standards

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#doubles #drama #fact #in fact #narration

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#double #earth #family #friends #get

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#characteristic #die #double #impossibility #live

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes. ↗

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

#bodies #called #carries #chromosomes #consequently

When I'm on that field, I give it everything I have, and when I come off, I'm a mom. As tired and exhausting as it is, it's about coming back, even after double days, and still being able to enjoy the kids. ↗

— Christie Rampone

#about #after #back #being #come

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. ↗

— Anne Rice

#double #flowers #funeral #house #i

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#decade #double #entitlement #fact #federal

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. ↗

— Vera Miles

#double #i #i love #lots #love

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#away #back #character #double #either