Haversack Civil War 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

Much of the Kama Sutra is like origami; I don't quite understand all the bending that needs to happen. — Erica Goros

Great," I said. "Another conference call. I have really got to start blocking your number. — Richelle Mead

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio

My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small. — George Benson

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference. — Marya Hornbacher

No care and no sorrow, — Jacob Grimm

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. — Voltaire

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy. — Marianne Williamson

Do not judge yourself and do not judge others at all. Do not be at a point of judgement, merely be in your discernment that your consciousness may transform and you will walk into your full power. From this place you may create anything. — Archangel Metatron

I'm marriable. But I'm not married. — Rachel Weisz

The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence. — George Sarton