Lds Womens Conference Quotes & Sayings

It was probably true that he objectified women. He thought about them all the time, didn't he? He looked at them a lot. And didn't all this thinking and looking involve their breasts and lips and legs? Female human beings were objects of the most intense interest and scrutiny on Mitchell's part. And yet he didn't think that a word like objectification covered the way these alluring - but intelligent! - creatures made him feel. What Mitchell felt when he saw a beautiful girl was more like something from a Greek myth, like being transformed, by the sight of beauty, into a tree, rooted on the spot, forever, out of pure desire. You couldn't feel about an object the way Mitchell felt about girls. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We can't live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living. — Pete Wilson

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. — Jane Pauley

I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour. — Yotam Ottolenghi

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain. — Debasish Mridha

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living. — W.G. Sebald

My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space. — Colleen Atwood

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human. — Gary Chapman

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers. — Jon Krakauer

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers. — Ruth Ozeki

I wish we had a donkey. The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys, Jane, Miss Bates, and me
and my caro sposo walking by. I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey. In a country life I conceive it to be a sort of necessary; for, let a woman have ever so many resources, it is not possible for her to be always shut up at home;
and very long walks, you know
in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt. — Jane Austen

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. — Edward Thorndike

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis. — Dan Brown

I could deal with this [Pokemon] if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin. — Robert Downey, Sr.