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248 Their Bodies quotes by 215 unique authors
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White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to…
— Cornel West
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What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps…
— Jenny Downham
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Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their…
— C.S. Lewis
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Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death…
— Homer
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
— Nick Harkaway
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The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
— Italo Calvino
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Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies.…
— Stephen King
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Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's…
— Christopher Paolini
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If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was…
— Patricia Highsmith
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But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their…
— Michael Crichton
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Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to…
— Christopher McDougall
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Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck,…
— Paullina Simons
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I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is…
— Mary Pipher
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For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
— John Cheever
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Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their…
— Suzanne Collins
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Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature…
— Robert Graves
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All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved…
— Francesca Lia Block
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