Valencay Quotes & Sayings

The idea that "femininity is artificial" is also blatantly misogynistic. Just as woman is man's "other", so too is femininity masculinity's "other". Under such circumstances, negative connotations like "artificial", "contrived", and "frivolous" become built into our understanding of femininity - indeed, this is precisely what allows masculinity to always come off as "natural", "practical" and "uncomplicated". — Julia Serano

Where there is always striving, always there is strife as well. Sometimes to be in one place is good. To be still." Leif — Susan Fanetti

When the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life. — P.C. Cast

Man, sometimes it really sucks being the only sane one on this ship. - Duv Jackson, Gunship — J.J. Snow

Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business. — Ted Hughes

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past. — Bernard Crick

I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong."
Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?"
"No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me."
"I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous."
"I do not find it so," Poirot assured him. — Agatha Christie

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in. — David Douglas Duncan

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool — Howard Barker

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty. — Thomas Jefferson