a collection of interresting quotes.
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“ Darwin explains that man’s mind became superior to woman’s because, among our brute ancestors, the males fought for the females and thus strengthened their minds. If he had lived until now, he would not have felt it necessary to make so ridiculous an explanation, because woman’s mind is not now believed to be inferior to man’s. ”
— William Jennings Bryan. God and evolution. The New York Times, 26 February, 1922.
“ If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. ”
— Horace
“ for me, the most beautiful girl would be a girl that feels comfortable with what she is. i’m always asked about what i would recommend, or what a girl should do—but it doesn’t work like that. you have to find yourself and what fits you and what’s good for you, and most of all, feel self-confident. ”
— Isabel Marant
“ « L’amour, c’est offrir à quelqu’un qui n’en veut pas quelque chose que l’on n’a pas. » ”
— Jacques Lacan
“ Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? ”
— Michel Foucault
“ Je pense en l’écoutant: cette femme a tout perdu mais c’est qu’elle avait tout, du moins tout ce qui compte. L’amour, le désir qu’il dure, la volonté de le faire durer et la confiance: il durerait. ”
— D’autres vies que la mienne, Emmanuel Carrère
“
There is no way to understand
the difference. Some red
has always just slipped from
our field of vision, a cardinal
dropping from persian to magenta to white so slowly
in order that the loss
be tempted,
not endured.
— Excerpt from For Mark Rothko by Jorie Graham.
(via rimeswriting)
“ With an unexceptionally Arab family name like Saïd, connected to an improbably British first name (my mother much admired the Prince of Wales in 1935, the year of my birth), I was an uncomfortably anomalous student all through my early years: a Palestinian going to school in Egypt, with an English first name, an American passport, and no certain identity at all. To make matters worse, Arabic, my native language, and English, my school language, were inextricably mixed: I have never known which was my first language, and have felt fully at home in neither, although I dream in both. Every time I speak an English sentence, I find myself echoing it in Arabic, and vice versa ”
— Edward Said
