The Feminine Mystique 1963 Quotes & Sayings

Death takes what man would keep," said the butterfly, "and leaves what man would lose. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. I warm my hands before the fire of life and get four-way relief. — Peter S. Beagle

I don't mind being introduced to people's skeletons firsthand, in person. I more than don't mind it. I prefer to reach right into the closet and shake their bony hands and say hello for myself. — Emery Lord

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting. — Chuck Bednarik

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin. — Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar ... although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names. — Marina Warner

Pain is all I know." He murmured.
"Peace is all I want — Dean Koontz

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge ... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. — Steve Maraboli

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. — Dennis Prager

Now I help you find her." He stood up from behind the table, smoothed down his tie. "I sit for too long. My leg goes to bed."
"To sleep?"
"Thank you, small person. At rare time, I am making mistake in English-language speaking, so thanks for accurate fixation. Now we find Sarah. You follow. Stay near. There are trivial beings everywhere. — Tom Rachman

Usually, when you talk about serialized TV, you're talking about one specific beat that you play, over and over again. — Boris Kodjoe

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I. — Catherynne M Valente

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder. — Billy Corgan

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time. — Camille Paglia

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. — George Saunders

A person who said, "All the ills of markets can be cured by more markets" would be lampooned as the worst sort of market fundamentalist. Why the double standard? Because unlike market fundamentalism, democratic fundamentalism is widespread. In polite company, you can make fun of the worshippers of Zeus, but not Christians or Jews. Similarly, it is socially acceptable to make fun of market fundamentalism, but not democratic fundamentalism, because market fundamentalists are scarce, and democratic fundamentalists are all around us. — Bryan Caplan