The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us… — John Redmond Copy Share Image
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Well, of course there’s my own experience of being mutilated as a little child. Having gone through this cruel practice and all… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
