#torture

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword. ↗

— Charles D. Ellison

#discourse #double-edged #double-edged sword #full #open

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#any #anybody #because #been #day

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#eccentric #either #must #nothing #poet

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture. ↗

— Zane Grey

#even #go #i #into #mine

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#bottle #consolation #cure #deal #doing

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

I spend all my time trying to capture the moment. And when I do, I'll interrogate and torture it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#moment #time #torture #funny

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#anyone #backs #blame #deaths #each

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#torture

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know? ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#enlightened #enough #know #making #people