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Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).
THOMAS à KEMPIS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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CHARLOTTE ROSS Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
GLORIA STEINEM In those investigations, the city discovered violations of city code at these properties and also di...
BRYAN WAGNER Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars...
CHARLOTTE ROSS She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi....
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Instead of either licensing our new products or peacefully coexisting with us, Microsoft has instead...
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JAMES S. MCDONNELL I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
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I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"
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SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.
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SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
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unfortunately, it won't date them either.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II In seeking to kill my humble self and four of my brothers, the whole world has discovered the extent...
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI Gloria.
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GLORIA STEINEM Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ...
GLORIA STEINEM In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
GLORIA STEINEM Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
GLORIA STEINEM What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president?...
GLORIA STEINEM I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining ...
GLORIA STEINEM Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
GLORIA STEINEM Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from ...
GLORIA STEINEM If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ...
GLORIA STEINEM We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should ...
GLORIA STEINEM Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
GLORIA STEINEM Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
GLORIA STEINEM God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there'...
GLORIA STEINEM The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hea...
GLORIA STEINEM Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling...
GLORIA STEINEM Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar...
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy ...
GLORIA STEINEM A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...
GLORIA STEINEM By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...
GLORIA STEINEM This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...
GLORIA STEINEM Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...
GLORIA STEINEM The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some g...
GLORIA STEINEM For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a co...
GLORIA STEINEM The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human ...
GLORIA STEINEM Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
GLORIA STEINEM Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply...
GLORIA STEINEM For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us kn...
GLORIA STEINEM Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
GLORIA STEINEM Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered ...
GLORIA STEINEM I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
GLORIA STEINEM Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...
GLORIA STEINEM If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
GLORIA STEINEM We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
GLORIA STEINEM Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about in...
GLORIA STEINEM I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are...
GLORIA STEINEM Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as eit...
GLORIA STEINEM You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporat...
GLORIA STEINEM Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...
GLORIA STEINEM 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no shortage of great young activists.
GLORIA STEINEM Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by...
GLORIA STEINEM Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
GLORIA STEINEM The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and...
GLORIA STEINEM The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
GLORIA STEINEM A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone c...
GLORIA STEINEM I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation ...
GLORIA STEINEM All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in whic...
GLORIA STEINEM The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
GLORIA STEINEM We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
GLORIA STEINEM Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it ...
GLORIA STEINEM The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ...
GLORIA STEINEM Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEM Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM I can't mate in captivity.
GLORIA STEINEM Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- eve...
GLORIA STEINEM Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
GLORIA STEINEM Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...
GLORIA STEINEM I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We...
GLORIA STEINEM Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding ...
GLORIA STEINEM To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system...
GLORIA STEINEM If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to...
GLORIA STEINEM Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
GLORIA STEINEM Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
GLORIA STEINEM This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, mon...
GLORIA STEINEM I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
GLORIA STEINEM Logic is in the eye of the logician.
GLORIA STEINEM . . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.
GLORIA STEINEM I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage...
GLORIA STEINEM Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.
GLORIA STEINEM Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and o...
GLORIA STEINEM Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
GLORIA STEINEM Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose powe...
GLORIA STEINEM When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie...
GLORIA STEINEM A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.
GLORIA STEINEM If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that'...
GLORIA STEINEM The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more lik...
GLORIA STEINEM There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations ...
GLORIA STEINEM I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact...
GLORIA STEINEM I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...
GLORIA STEINEM No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
GLORIA STEINEM I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women...
GLORIA STEINEM Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those ...
GLORIA STEINEM Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not al...
GLORIA STEINEM No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education ...
GLORIA STEINEM The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, ou...
GLORIA STEINEM If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
GLORIA STEINEM You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79
GLORIA STEINEM I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. L...
GLORIA STEINEM Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for wome...
GLORIA STEINEM This is what fifty looks like. We’ve been lying so long, who would know?
GLORIA STEINEM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEM It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
GLORIA STEINEM Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it
GLORIA STEINEM The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bott...
GLORIA STEINEM The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
GLORIA STEINEM Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
GLORIA STEINEM I can't mate in captivity
GLORIA STEINEM At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men y...
GLORIA STEINEM One thing is sure. Women and girls will have their first vision of a female network anchor who is an...
GLORIA STEINEM We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEM For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
GLORIA STEINEM A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
GLORIA STEINEM If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
GLORIA STEINEM But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't...
GLORIA STEINEM I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself...
GLORIA STEINEM She has become the Julia Child of sex.
GLORIA STEINEM The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn
GLORIA STEINEM Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruli...
GLORIA STEINEM Most women are one man away from welfare.
GLORIA STEINEM It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
GLORIA STEINEM make dinner, not war.
GLORIA STEINEM That is almost impossible to do -- to prove that a pregnancy would literally cause you to lose your ...
GLORIA STEINEM I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger
GLORIA STEINEM What has the women's movement learned from [Geraldine Ferraro's] candidacy for vice president? Never...
GLORIA STEINEM Law and justice are not always the same.
GLORIA STEINEM Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy
GLORIA STEINEM The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
GLORIA STEINEM A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
GLORIA STEINEM The definition of woman's work is shitwork
GLORIA STEINEM The surest way to be alone is to get married
GLORIA STEINEM Hope is a very unruly emotion
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power
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GLORIA STEINEM Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
GLORIA STEINEM It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for somethi...
GLORIA STEINEM It's important not to stigmatize the word Republican, because the great tragedy is an extremist grou...
GLORIA STEINEM Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
GLORIA STEINEM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God
GLORIA STEINEM There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
GLORIA STEINEM Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especiall...
GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
GLORIA STEINEM so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman w...
GLORIA STEINEM The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what ...
GLORIA STEINEM I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the wo...
GLORIA STEINEM No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to...
GLORIA STEINEM Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.
GLORIA STEINEM Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
GLORIA STEINEM Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
GLORIA STEINEM Our grief is not a cry for war.
"That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what...
GLORIA STEINEM In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women...
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that p...
GLORIA STEINEM Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...
GLORIA STEINEM If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
GLORIA STEINEM We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It'...
GLORIA STEINEM Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
GLORIA STEINEM The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
GLORIA STEINEM If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
GLORIA STEINEM Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
GLORIA STEINEM Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
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