Elegidos In English Quotes & Sayings

When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaking, hoping someone would like it. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Men still have everything to say about their sexuality, and everything to write. For what they have said so far, for the most part, stems from the opposition activity/
passivity, from the power relation between a fantasized obligatory virility meant
to invade, to colonize, and the consequential phantasm of woman as a "dark
continent" to penetrate and to "pacify." (We know what "pacify" means in terms of
scotomizing the other and misrecognizing the self.) Conquering her, they've made
haste to depart from her borders, to get out of sight, out of body. The way man has
of getting out of himself and into her whom he takes not for the other but for his
own, deprives him, he knows, of his own bodily territory. One can understand
how man, confusing himself with his penis and rushing in for the attack, might
feel resentment and fear of being "taken" by the woman, of being lost in her,
absorbed, or alone. — Helene Cixous

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a a note on it saying, toys not included. — Bernard Manning

I have had so much public support. — Heather Mills

You want perfect? Buy a Barbie. They are quiet. — Kate Stewart

Rares claps his hands. "When you're finished, dear heart, feel free to leave the books on the table, as disorganized as you possibly can." He motions to a table behind me, situated in a break in the rows of books. "The librarian in residence in charge of the Library of Clarisse is an offensively irritable man, and I would like nothing better than to make unnecessary work for him. — Sara Raasch

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. — Huey Newton

The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing. — Dontrelle Willis

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Marion Garn