Ms Pearly Quotes & Sayings

Together and separately, we as speakers disproved another description used to disqualify feminists: that we were all "whitemiddleclass," a phrase used by the media then (and academics who believe those media clippings now) as if it were a single adjective to describe the women's movement. In fact, the first-ever nationwide poll of women's opinions on issues of gender equality showed that African American women were twice as likely as white women to support them.8 If the poll had included Latinas, Asian Americans, Native Americans, — Gloria Steinem

She'd always known she could tolerate pain. Now she knew she could survive pleasure. — Kit Rocha

And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voyage. Because without my world inside me I will contract and congeal, more even than I am now, without speech and without actions and without any purchase upon time. — Marlene Van Niekerk

To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her. — Jamie McGuire

The process of constantly returning to love is called Meditation. When you abide in love effortlessly, it is Realization. — Yogi Kanna

Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society. — Mark Skousen

What they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them. — Flannery O'Connor

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability. — Jamie Bamber

I brought my hand to the back of his neck and leaned into him, sliding my fingers into the curls at his nape. His arms clasped tighter around me. I sighed just a little against his mouth, feeling that it was almost too much, all this newness, this feeling that there was space and light inside me I'd never noticed before. Every part of me down to my fingertips felt like reworked glass, melting into some new shape, my edges beginning to glow. I wanted to do nothing but change this way, pressed against his body, his warmth and goodness, forever. — Betsy Cornwell

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget

Rocks beat human, always. — Suzanne Collins

Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth - not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity? — Elizabeth Gilbert

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley

He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love. — Jeanette Winterson

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee. — Arianna Huffington