Prostheses Pros Quotes & Sayings

I feel as if part of me is now made of sorrow, some new and tender organ that will pain me until the day I die. I know Maren is safe and well, and made beautiful in all ways. My grief is not for her but for myself - because I miss her . . . because she is missing from me. — Carrie Anne Noble

The "new" Anglo-American feminist theory argues that too little mothering, and, in particular, the absence of mother-son connection, is what engenders both sexism and traditional masculinity in men. (...) This perspective positions mothering as central to feminist politics in its insistence that true and lasting gender equality will occur only when boys are raised as the sons of mothers. As the early feminist script of mother-son connection required the denial of the mother's power and the displacement of her identity as mother, the new perspective affirms the maternal and celebrates mother-son connection. In this, it rewrites the patriarchal and early feminist narrative to give (...) voice and presence to the mother and make mother-son connection central to the redesign of both traditional masculinity and the larger patriarchal culture. — Andrea O'Reilly

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi. — Hristo Stoichkov

I wish it didn't have to hurt you," she says.
"Do you?"
"Of course. Believe me, Cassio. I never wanted to be this tragic. — Kendare Blake

Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and
then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the
middle ... — Oscar Wilde

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. — Henry Ward Beecher

During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.
The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine ... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed ... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin ... — Paul Cezanne

I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962. — Rita Rudner