Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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ELIZABETH DREW A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet. NATHANIEL BRANDEN When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expre... THOMAS MOORE One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, whi... EDWARD WITTEN She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibl... JORDAN STRATFORD Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, / And fevers into false creation. LORD BYRON Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau... ST. BERNARD Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau... BERNARD, ST. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. LORD CHESTERFIELD Beauty is not a mindset, its how you set that beautiful mind... 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JEAN VANIER I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just beca... COCO AUSTIN Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav... SIR RICHARD STEELE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav... AUGUST HARE A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ... LIONEL TRILLING The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of stre... THOMM QUACKENBUSH The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu... IRIS MURDOCH Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if tod... ANDRE GIDE The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself... 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KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To be free from control is like to have a heavy cross to carry one moment then tossing it aside the ... GARY F EVANS... Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal... MALCOLM DE CHAZAL Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this ... VIKRAM SETH Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. IRENE CLAREMONT DE CASTILLEJO Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its ... BARUCH SPINOZA Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its ... BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the... MICHEL FOUCAULT Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic... JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness. SAMUEL BECKETT In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The c... ERNIE HARWELL Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ... MARCUS AURELIUS “its the quiet ones that have the biggest heart in them, its the humble ones who can see the bigge... CODY MATTHEW ROCK The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about th... ARISTOTLE Every heart has its own brain; it’s the mind that has to find its own heart to train itself to see... ANUJ SOMANY I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features. RACHEL ROY You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could ris... MARGARET ATWOOD Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati... DOUGLAS ADAMS Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. BILL COSBY The only prison we can be is prison of our mind. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it ... J. ARUNDEL CHAPMAN I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my go... NADINE VELAZQUEZ I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body... TINA LOUISE This is a market that is still in its infancy, but it has the potential to blossom into a staggering... 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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal ins... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is prop... MICHEL FOUCAULT
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MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con... MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything... MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei... MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse... MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any... MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ... MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ... MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera... MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow... MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe... MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn... MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu... MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning. MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no... MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w... MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n... MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and... MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p... MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew... MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha... MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ... MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air... MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye... MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ... MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O... MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that... MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven. MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan... MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we... MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR