#th

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#even #everything #helps #hide #i

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh. ↗

— Dan Brown

#control #dan-brown #flesh #tattoo #the-lost-symbol

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches. ↗

— Ronnie Lott

#best #bigger #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#journey #like #song #toil #weary

What? Quinn's one of them? I just thought he was an a*shole! ↗

— Simon Holt

#funny #simon-holt #the-devouring #funny

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis. ↗

— Trent Lott

#anything #eventually #folks #founded #free

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#engineering #heel #human #itself #little

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty... ↗

— Edward Gorey

#aging #death #old-age #reading #age