Prosiaczek Poznan Quotes & Sayings

He hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only in relation to men, but as people with independent desires, hopes and abilities. But I know that this can't happen as long as American culture continues to inundate us with gender-role messages that place everyone-men and women-in an unnatural hierarchical order that's impossible to maintain without strife. For women to move forward, and for men to break free, we need to overcome the masculinity status quo-together. — Jessica Valenti

Nice, nice, very nice. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence — Mahatma Gandhi

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron. — Nhat Hanh

If you aren't hearing your inner voice, it could mean you're overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you've learned to shut it off because the people around you have refused to engage it. Perhaps you've had a hardening of the arteries around your soul. I believe the choices we make in our lives and the people and places surrounding us increase the volume of our inner voice, decrease it, or annihilate it entirely. — Kelly Cutrone

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. — Kate Chopin

The problem with parents is that they're adults. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players. — Milan Kundera

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. — Alice McDermott

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger. — Kate Bornstein

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries. — Jose Angel Gurria

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways. — Noah Hawley

For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always did hate those people," he said, "and they always have hated and always will hate me. I am an Ihsmael by instinct as much as by accident of circumstances, but if I keep out of society I shall be less vulnerable than Ishmaels generally are. The moment a man goes into society, he becomes vulnerable all round. — Samuel Butler