A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the "good man".” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. — Chris Hedges 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
Would it be wrong, would it be right? If I took my life tonight, Chances are that I might Mutilation out of… — Patience Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
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
“You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the… — Caroline Kettlewell Copy Share Image
There is a rather huge ethical difference between electing surgery and being faced with transphobic condemnation and diagnoses. I would say that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be?… — Caroline Kettlewell Copy Share Image
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins… — Erik Erikson 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
Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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 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 don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
“We have created a rhetoric of “gender identity” that is disconnected from biological sexual fact, and we have done so largely in… — Kevin D Williams 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
Why? You want to know why? Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can… — Nicholas D. Kristof 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
Ripped apart, limb by limb, shattereing bones, heart caving in. Self mutilation, scar after scar, empty and having warn like tar. — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and… — Ani DiFranco 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
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu 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
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