Toshinoris Grandfather Quotes & Sayings

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception. — Stacy Schiff

A raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can't protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that they're not respectable. It's worse for the victim because once a woman, or a girl - or a boy - is known as the target of a rape she becomes so despised, so shamed, so worthless that she turns into public property. No one is raped only once. — Louise Brown

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit. — Meghan O'Rourke

You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it. — Jane Roberts

The pillow was heaven feathers in six-hundred-count cotton joy. — Devon Monk

If the gospel has never broken you, you have never really heard it. — Matt Papa

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just
keep falling and falling and falling. — Elizabeth Scott