Astonishing Quote by Grace Paley Download Open image “You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.” — Grace Paley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonishing Erotic Knows Long Mind Psychology
“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination,… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along. — Lily King Copy Share Image
The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground,… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government… — George Washington Copy Share Image
