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Marina Warner has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand…
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot…
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Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers…
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The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is…
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing…
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Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to…
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To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
— Robert Higgs
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We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.
— Pete Wentz
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found…
— Charles Dickens
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When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality.…
— Tea Obreht
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
— Charles Dickens
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The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against…
— Marina Warner
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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
— James Montgomery
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I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy,…
— Meredith Grey
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