Patrivincialism Quotes & Sayings

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four. — Edward De Bono

'Jersey Boys' was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized movement. — Erich Bergen

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring. — Amy Lee

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved. — Barbara Amiel

And you? Did you find the doorknob?"
Hadrian picked up a jug and downed several swallows, drinking so quickly some of the water dripped down his chin. He poured some in his palm and rinsed his face, running his fingers through his hair.
"I didn't even get close enough to see a door."
"Well, look on the bright side" - Hadrian smiled - "at least you weren't captured and condemned to death this time."
"That's the bright side?"
"What can I say? I'm a glass-half-full kinda guy. — Michael J. Sullivan

people who strongly value the pursuit of wealth and possessions report lower psychological well-being than those who are less concerned with such aims. — Jeremy Rifkin

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords. — James Fenton

Them who don't look, sometimes get took. — Mike Brady

I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men ... — Adrienne Rich

Moving toward a more harmonious way of life and greater resilience requires our active participation. This means finding ways to become more aware of and connected to the other forms of life that are around us and that constitute our food -- plants and animals, as well as bacteria and fungi -- and to the resources, such as water, fuel, materials, tools, and transportation, upon which we depend. It means taking responsibility for our shit, both literally and figuratively. — Sandor Ellix Katz

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent. — Bill Bryson

... the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder. — Yiannis Ritsos

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity. — Walter Russell Bowie

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know. — Nicolas Winding Refn