Portlandia Feminist Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none? — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Even if he hadn't wanted to kiss her, Chase needed to kiss Bailey. As if reading his mind, Bailey parted her lips and took a slight inhale, pressing her chest against him more fully. He didn't think about it; it just happened, as naturally as her breath. — T.J. Kline

We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

I remember the tale of the rabbi to whom a dead man came with a problem: he believed that he was alive. "Don't you know," the rabbi told him, "that you are no longer among the living? You are in the Land of Confusion." On hearing the story, the rabbi's son worried that he too was in the Land of Confusion. "Once you know that there exists such a world, you cannot be in it," explained the father. (208) — Michael Greenberg

If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen. Silence can exist without speech, but speech cannot live without silence. Listen to the speech of others. Listen even more to their silence. To pray is to listen to the revelations of nature, to the meaning of events. To listen to music is to listen also to silence, and to find the stillness deepened and enriched. — Jacob Trapp

I've always been a little soft. I like to eat. — Chris Pratt

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. — John Buchan

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right. — Marlon Starling

I'm sitting here watching Hannah Montana, so I'm not going to annihilate 4.3 million Pakistanis without hearing directly from someone whose authority I recognize! — Andre Braugher

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Things may need to stay in the darkness for some time. There is power in darkness: the power of gestation, deep dreaming, and the sweetness of night. However, sometimes darkness obscures our vision, making it difficult to see some of our very important parts. And sometimes darkness is a messy closet into which we shove things we can't quite get rid of, but don't know how to use anymore. — T. Thorn Coyle

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. — H.G.Wells

When content scarcity was the norm, we could live with a minimum of context. In a limited market, our editors became skilled in making decisions about what would be published. Now, in an era of abundance, editors have inherited a new and fundamentally different role: figuring out how "what is published" will be discovered. — Hugh McGuire