Telltales Walking Quotes & Sayings

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. — Richard Selzer

Carpenters don't make their saws and hammers, tailors don't make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don't make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels — Daniel C. Dennett

And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight. — Umberto Guidoni

Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others. — Bell Hooks

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action. — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates. — Plato

As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, "Naked Without Shame," about black women's bodies and politics, "Marked by shame, projected as inherent and therefore precluding any possibility of innocence, the black female body was beyond redemption." She points out that since the time of U.S. slavery, men have benefited from positioning black women as naturally promiscuous because it absolves them of guilt when they sexually assault and rape women of color. "[I]t was impossible to ruin that which was received as inherently unworthy, tainted, and soiled," hooks wrote.
Women of color, low-income women, immigrant women- these are the women who are not seen as worthy of being placed on a pedestal. It's only our perfect virgins who are valuable, worthy of discourse and worship. — Jessica Valenti