Cieca Significato Quotes & Sayings

Our feelings about menstruation are the image of what it is to be a woman in this culture. While menstruation and the fear of revealing evidence of loss of body control bear possibilities of humiliation for women of which men are not aware, it is humiliating too to be that sex whose voice and presence carry less significance. It is humiliating to speak the same words as a man and have his heard, and not yours. It is humiliating to feel invisible when God gave you a body as solid as his. It is humiliating that women are accorded little dignity unless they are married. We twist these humiliations around, of course, and say it is glorious to have a man fight our battles for us, put us on a pedestal, take care of us. It is, if you enjoy being dependent on someone else. — Nancy Friday

Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. — Bjork

I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was ... it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness. — Barbara Brown Taylor

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume

When you have developed a relationship with yourself, you can begin to take on the world. — Gabriella Kortsch

There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability. — Harold B. Lee

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think. — Jello Biafra

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within. — Lionel

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. — Lee Grant

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated. — Terence McKenna

What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically. — Bill Maher

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized. — Leland Stanford

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery. — Emily Bronte