Fresta Significado Quotes & Sayings

What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The advances of science, the development of labor-saving appliances, the development of the suburbs: all had come together to offer women in the 1950s a life their mothers had scarcely dreamed of, free from rampant disease, onerous drudgery, noxious city streets. But the green lawns and big corner lots were isolating, the housework seemed to expand to fill the time available, and polio and smallpox were replaced by depression and alcoholism. All that was covered up in a kitchen conspiracy of denial ...
[i]nstead the problem was with the mystique of waxed floors and perfectly applied lipstick. — Betty Friedan

But the only feature of the view that ever changed was the signatures of foam deposited on the beach by the waves. Each breaker, she supposed, was as unique as a human soul. Each made its own runup onto the shore, being the very embodiment of vigor and power at the start, but each slowed, spread thin, faltered, dissolved into a hissing ribbon of grey foam and got buried underneath the next. — Neal Stephenson

Apparently, the world is not a
wish-granting factory. — John Green

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad. — Agatha Christie

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men. — Clara Barton

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My film career was always to support my theater career. — Kim Cattrall

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned," I repeated. "But never as much as I have been sinned against! — Wally Lamb

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks. — Andrew Weil

You might not thank me if it rains," he warned. "It wouldn't be the first time you've gotten me wet." She drew back as a strange look passed over Julian's face. "What's wrong?" "Nothing," he muttered through his teeth. "Absolutely nothing." *** — Victoria Vane

Judging requires a lot of negative energy. When we stop our thoughts from judging another person's hidden motive, intention or character, and simply address our differences, we create a dialogue of peace and reconciliation. — Hwa Sung Ryu