Constructs Quotes

307 quotes by 279 authors

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find… — Stacy Schiff
Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that… — Bell Hooks
Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical… — Frank Beddor
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. — Sigmund Freud
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level â€’ there weren't any images of them, no… — Jim Butcher
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at… — Chuck Palahniuk
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored. — Eoin Colfer
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of… — Andrew Sean Greer
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is… — W G Sebald
My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are… — Steve Martin
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of… — Wole Soyinka
Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough… — David Foster Wallace
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,… — Paulo Coelho
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an… — Henry David Thoreau
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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