"I have nothing maternal in me, and men……" — Karen Armstrong
"I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time."
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105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong has 105 quotes on this site.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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More Maternal Quotes
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My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six…
— Steve Carell
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I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the…
— Hillary Clinton
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We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do.…
— Hillary Clinton
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal,…
— Hillary Clinton
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People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea…
— Caleb Carr
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Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every…
— Phyllis McGinley
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I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby...…
— Beyonce Knowles
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Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass…
— Pope John Paul II
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I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their…
— Walter Sutton
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My family always says my voice is a gift—a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson.…
— Jennifer Hudson
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Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in…
— Sheryl WuDunn
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