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Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination Picture Quote #1

To permit writers to use forms which violate convention just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think differently: not to think about different things, but to think in different ways Picture Quote #1

I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies aren't just coy, they are sci fi about money… …people ask, well, don't sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesn't keep you from dying, making love doesn't keep you from dying unless you get paid, writing doesn't keep you from dying unless you get paid, being wise doesn't keep you from dying unless you get paid, facts are facts, being poor makes you face facts which also does not keep you from dying Picture Quote #1

Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships Picture Quote #1

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviors, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us Picture Quote #1

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us? Picture Quote #1

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The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths Picture Quote #1

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument Picture Quote #1

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed Picture Quote #1

Life depends on what she thinks of as ‘big bursts' and ‘little bursts. ' Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee Picture Quote #1

I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her Picture Quote #1

That day at chemo, we talked once more about the ending of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. “I just really want to know which character dies. I've read the ending again and again, ” I said. “I hate not knowing. ” “I do too. That's why I always read endings first. But sometimes you just can't know what's going to happen, even when you know everything there is to know. So you prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins Picture Quote #1

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect Picture Quote #1

If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us Picture Quote #1

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live Picture Quote #1

Remember the Italian steward who put on women's clothes and so filched a seat in a lifeboat? A cur in human shape, certainly he was born and saved to set a new standard by which to judge infamy and shame Picture Quote #1

Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them Picture Quote #1

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Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question Picture Quote #1

How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of

A good-natured woman... which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor Picture Quote #1

This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized Picture Quote #1

For I hate, yet love thee, so, that, whichever thing I show, the plain truth will seem to be a constrained hyperbole, and the passion to proceed more from a mistress than a weed Picture Quote #1

But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written Picture Quote #1

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The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activity activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart Picture Quote #1

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido Picture Quote #1

A presentation copy... Is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return Picture Quote #1

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple, - in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes of her Picture Quote #1

To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual Picture Quote #1

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world Picture Quote #1

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Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination (Which Quotes) To permit writers to use forms which violate convention just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think differently: not to think about different things, but to think in different ways (Which Quotes) I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies aren't just coy, they are sci fi about money… …people ask, well, don't sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesn't keep you from dying, making love doesn't keep you from dying unless you get paid, writing doesn't keep you from dying unless you get paid, being wise doesn't keep you from dying unless you get paid, facts are facts, being poor makes you face facts which also does not keep you from dying (Which Quotes) Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships (Which Quotes) When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviors, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us (Which Quotes) Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us? (Which Quotes) The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths (Which Quotes) Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument (Which Quotes) One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed (Which Quotes) Life depends on what she thinks of as ‘big bursts' and ‘little bursts. ' Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee (Which Quotes) I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her (Which Quotes) That day at chemo, we talked once more about the ending of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. “I just really want to know which character dies. I've read the ending again and again, ” I said. “I hate not knowing. ” “I do too. That's why I always read endings first. But sometimes you just can't know what's going to happen, even when you know everything there is to know. So you prepare for the worst but hope for the best." (Which Quotes) A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins (Which Quotes) A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect (Which Quotes) If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us (Which Quotes) You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live (Which Quotes) Remember the Italian steward who put on women's clothes and so filched a seat in a lifeboat? A cur in human shape, certainly he was born and saved to set a new standard by which to judge infamy and shame (Which Quotes) Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them (Which Quotes) Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question (Which Quotes) How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of "accepting" Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls (Which Quotes) A good-natured woman... which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor (Which Quotes) This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized (Which Quotes) For I hate, yet love thee, so, that, whichever thing I show, the plain truth will seem to be a constrained hyperbole, and the passion to proceed more from a mistress than a weed (Which Quotes) But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written (Which Quotes) The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activity activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart (Which Quotes) If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido (Which Quotes) A presentation copy... Is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return (Which Quotes) Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple, - in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes of her (Which Quotes) To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual (Which Quotes) Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world (Which Quotes)

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