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- The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of…
- I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at…
- The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go…
- We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly…
- There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power…
- In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the…
- We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that…
- The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than…
- Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
- The moment of change is the only poem.
- If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
- To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical…
- Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.…
- I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in…
- Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle