Tom Barman Quotes & Sayings

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice. — Tom Hodgkinson

There's nothing revolutionary about reinforcing the virgin/whore dichotomy. — Jessica Valenti

I'm a lover, not a fighter. — Rachel Hawkins

But courage was a flower, something that blossomed and wilted swiftly. And Gariath was a cold snap in winter. — Sam Sykes

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one. — William Faulkner

Nothing is impossible, except in our own thinking. — George Bryant

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. — Christopher Morley

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. — Ad Reinhardt

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to. — Carol S. Dweck

She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The opportunity for evil in itself does not suffice; people need a rationale as well. Consider how unpleasant, how awkward it must be when your neighbor, catching his breath (and that can happen anytime), screams, 'Why?' - or, 'Aren't you ashamed?!' It's embarrassing to stand there without a ready answer. A crowbar makes a poor rebuttal, everybody senses that. The whole trick lies in having the proper grounds to brush aside such aggravating objections. Contemptuously. Everyone wants to commit a villainy without having to feel like a villain. — Stanislaw Lem

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members. — Meredith Monk

I love you, too, L. I think I always have. — Kami Garcia

What GOD has joined together, let no man put asunder. Your consummation is an eternal binding. It is a glorious mystery not realized by many, and abused by most." ~SCRIBER~ — Lucian Bane