Devirilising Quotes & Sayings

My Lesbian history tells me that the vice squad is never our friend even when it is called in by women; that when police rid a neighborhood of 'undesirables,' the undesirables have also included street Lesbians; that I must find another way to fight violence against women without doing violence to my Lesbian self. I must find a way that does not cooperate with the state forces against sexuality, forces that raided my bars, beat up my women, entrapped us in bathrooms, closed our plays, and banned our books. — Joan Nestle

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute. — Michael Bloomberg

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet. — Frederick Lenz

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon

Wine unlocks the breast. — Horace

He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting. — Thomas Hardy

A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays. — Paulo Coelho

The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities. — Guillaume Faye

Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond. — Ace Antonio Hall

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Maybe it isn't based on what you deserve. Maybe it's based on what you need. — Orson Scott Card

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give. — Garth Nix

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech. — Deborah Eisenberg

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can. — Dominic Monaghan