Ndelia Quotes & Sayings

No. I'm afraid it would be quite impossible to use a hammer without hammering. — Siri Mitchell

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred. — Naomi Wolf

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' — Ruth Glick

I think that it's really important to go away and come back. — Katherine Dunn

I'd fought hard, and I learned that I could take a hit and keep going. And I'd never let myself get knocked down again — Taylor Morris

It is my governing conviction, in all that follows, that much of modernity should be understood not as a grand revolt against the tyranny of faith, not as a movement of human liberation and progress, but as a counterrevolution, a reactionary rejection of a freedom which it no longer understands, but upon which it remains parasitic. Even when modern persons turn away from Christian conviction, there are any number of paths that have been irrevocably closed to them - either because they lead toward philosophical positions that Christianity has assumed successfully into its own story, or because they lead toward forms of "superstition" that Christianity has rendered utterly incredible to modern minds. A post-Christian unbeliever is still, most definitely, for good or for ill, post-Christian. We live in a world transformed by an ancient revolution - social, intellectual, metaphysical, moral, spiritual - the immensity of which we often only barely grasp. — David Bentley Hart