Silberbauer Rae Quotes & Sayings

The arbitrary character of patriarchal ascriptions of temperament and role has little effect upon their power over us. Nor do the mutually exclusive, contradictory, and polar qualities of the categories "masculine" and "feminine" imposed upon human personality give rise to sufficiently serious question among us. Under their aegis each personality becomes little more, and often less than half, of its human potential. Politically, the fact that each group exhibits a circumscribed but complementary personality and range of activity is of secondary importance to the fact that each represents a status or power division. In the matter of conformity patriarchy is a governing ideology without peer; it is probably that no other system has ever exercised such a complete control over its subjects. — Kate Millett

The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it. — Alan Redpath

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism — Dean Cavanagh

Ruthless. That's my girl. — Holly Black

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing. — Luc Tuymans

There was a time when a book could be sold purely because its author had been to distant climes and had returned to tell of the exotic sights he had seen. That author was Marco Polo, and the time was the thirteenth century. — Howard Mittelmark

What doesn't bend, breaks. — Ani DiFranco

I feel like I'm stuck in a bad movie, with a little devil sitting on one shoulder and an angel on the other. But the goddamn devil is twice the size and my angel is a fucking mute. Great, I have a fucking mute angel. — Vi Keeland

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. — George Farquhar

Each match I play is the most important one yet. — Viswanathan Anand

After listening to all this information we came to the conclusion that the world of Sir John Mandeville has by no means disappeared, that the world of two-headed men and flying serpents has not disappeared. And, indeed, while we were away the flying saucers appeared, which do nothing to overturn our thesis. And it seems to us now the most dangerous tendency in the world is the desire to believe a rumor rather than to pin down a fact. — John Steinbeck

You only grow when you are alone. — Paul Newman