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To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power. To surrender to the Eternal flow is to be completely present. ↗

— Vimalia McClure

#inspirational #patience #inspirational

It must be odd having a lover as a servant." Jack said. "You mean a servant as a lover." Violet said. "What you describe is merely how most men view marriage. ↗

— Lev A.C. Rosen

#marriage

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

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#patriarchy #wilderness #women #men

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #hard-work #inspirational #patience #persistence

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#communism #inspired #me

Life is for participating, not for spectating. ↗

— Kathrine Switzer

#participate #running #spectate #inspirational

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative. ↗