you cant hold a man down without staying down with him - Booker T. Washington

"You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.” ― Queen Latifah

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

Germaine Greer

Clare Boothe Luce
 

Socialite Clare Boothe Luce, married to Henry R. Luce who published Time, Life, and Fortune, served in the US Congress from 1942 to 1946 and later as ambassador to Brazil and Italy. She also wrote plays, was a World War II war correspondent, and wrote articles and reviews. She was noted for her quips and wit.
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• If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

• They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress, you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

• A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

• A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

• Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

"when life knocks you down, you get back up, spit the blood outta your mouth and say, 'you hit like a little kid'." Muhammad Ali


"that which does not kill me had better start running before i recover." Jada Pinkett

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
-- Plato

Don't set your wit against a child.
-- Jonathan Swift

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
-- W. B. Yeats

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
-- William C. Bagley

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
--Amos Bronson Alcott

"I call it 'quiet confidence.' That's when you're truly comfortable with who you are and you can just stand in a place of confidence in the way you are and who you are. That 'quiet confidence' doesn't need to show off. It doesn't need to brag or play-act or make a big stink to let other people know you're worthwhile. True confidence, true self-worth and true beauty and love are quiet. If you live this way, you start healing others. Just by accepting who you are."

- Edward Gutierrez

A heroine doesn't need to speak. When she is gone, the world will speak for her.

Audacity augments courage.- Publilius Syrus

Character-the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life-is the source from which self-respect springs. -Joan Didion

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.- Latin proverb

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
-- Thomas Jefferson

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Johnny Depp

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” -Anaïs Nin

Hiding in Plain Sight: Wendy Rene (by Andria Lisle)
 

An excerpt from the liner notes of After the Laughter (Comes Tears): Complete Stax + Volt Rarities 1964-1965 (( Light in the Attic, zine issue 4, winter/spring 2012 )):


"Mama said I could sing. I think all mothers tell their children they can sing, they can act. I believed her," Wendy Rene says, another broad smile creasing her face. "She was the minister of music at our church -- she played piano, organ and violin. Mama had bought me a little organ and I knew how to make some keys on it. Usually, she'd be playing her piano that you'd better not touch. Don't even look at it too hard! While she was playing it, I'd get a feel for her music, but not her music, because I'd be listening to WLOK and I would fall in love with the words, fall in love with the story, and sit out back and write a song. And Johnny would have us doing secular music, although my daddy didn't go for that and mama would be, 'Are you finished with that'?"

~ Wendy Rene

Mary Daly (1928-2010)
 

Mary Daly, a feminist theologian, was noted for her strong critique of patriarchy and of traditional religion, especially the Roman Catholic church.
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~ 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

~ The fact is that we live in a profoundly anti-female society, a misogynistic "civilization" in which men collectively victimize women, attacking us as personifications of their own paranoid fears, as The Enemy. Within this society it is men who rape, who sap women's energy, who deny women economic and political power.

~ Males do indeed deeply identify with "unwanted fetal tissue," for they sense as their own condition the role of controller, possessor, inhabitor of women. Draining female energy, they feel "fetal." Since this perpetual fetal state is fatal to the Self of the eternal mother (Hostess), males fear women's recognition of this real condition, which would render them infinitely "unwanted." For this attraction/need of males for female energy, seen for what it is, is necrophilia -- not in the sense of love for actual corpses, but of love for those victimized into a state of living death.

~ The gynecological profession and the popularizing media have combined their efforts to make the poisoning of women appear acceptable. Just as popping The Pill is both "normal" and normative for younger women, so is estrogen replacement therapy for their mothers and older sisters.

On a lighter note...
 

"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy."

Sorry, don't know the author, but hell, it coulda been me. Lol

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty, and your purpose when you are confused~Alan Cohen

Friedrich Nietzsche
 

‎"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."


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"I’m not a romantic, but even I must concede that the heart does not exist solely for the purpose of pumping blood.." -Violet Crawley (Downton Abbey)

Perfect Woman
 

William Wordsworth

Perfect Woman

SHE was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light.