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Doe Quotes by Angela Carter
- Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it…
- Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the…
- She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and…
- The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten…
- She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside…
- How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
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- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
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- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi