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«Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be»
Author: Betty Rollin
| Keywords:
feminists, from scratch, longs, object, scratch, scratched, scratches, sex object, underneath
«The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses»
«Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| Keywords:
death instinct, death wish, longs, repress, ties, Ties That Bind, unfasten, unhindered
«O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
| Keywords:
continuous, follies, longs, pious, possesses, utters
«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
crudities, crudity, desires, escape, escape from, everyday, everyday life, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, longs, man of science, motives, objective, painful, perception, personal, Personal life, shifted, shifting, shifts, strongest, tempered
«The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Mankind
| Keywords:
attain, attains, longs, significance
«The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle / yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
age limit, candlestick, commanded, competent, construction, every month, every night, hanker, intercourse, Law of God, longs, No limit, plainly, pregnancies, pregnancy, put-upon, put into action, Seven Years, sexually, Three Ages, twenty-three, yearns
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