Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

-- Thomas Merton

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute. -Josh Billings

Do not ask a blind man which is the right way. - German Proverb

There is no wisdom like frankness.-Ben Disraeli

" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
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"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there." - Meister Eckhart


"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence." - Meister Eckhart

Mary Daly (1928-2010)
 

Mary Daly, a feminist theologian, was noted for her strong critique of patriarchy and of traditional religion, especially the Roman Catholic church.

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• If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

• Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

• 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

• I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

• Patriarchy is the homeland of males; it is Father Land; and men are its agents.

• Women who are Pirates in a phallocentric society are involved in a complex operation. First, it is necessary to Plunder -- that is, righteously rip off -- gems of knowledge that the patriarchs have stolen from us. Second, we must Smuggle back to other women our Plundered treasures. In order to invert strategies that will be big and bold enough for the next millennium, it is crucial that women share our experiences: the chances we have taken and the choices that have kept us alive. They are my Pirate's battle cry and wake-up call for women who I want to hear.

• The fact is that we live in a profoundly anti-female society, a misogynistic "civilization" in which men collectively victimize women, attacking us as personifications of their own paranoid fears, as The Enemy. Within this society it is men who rape, who sap women's energy, who deny women economic and political power.

• Males do indeed deeply identify with "unwanted fetal tissue," for they sense as their own condition the role of controller, possessor, inhabitor of women. Draining female energy, they feel "fetal." Since this perpetual fetal state is fatal to the Self of the eternal mother (Hostess), males fear women's recognition of this real condition, which would render them infinitely "unwanted." For this attraction/need of males for female energy, seen for what it is, is necrophilia -- not in the sense of love for actual corpses, but of love for those victimized into a state of living death.

• Since women on average survive men by a significant number of years, it should not be surprising that gynecology is functioning to remedy this unacceptable situation.

• The gynecological profession and the popularizing media have combined their efforts to make the poisoning of women appear acceptable. Just as popping The Pill is both "normal" and normative for younger women, so is estrogen replacement therapy for their mothers and older sisters.

Let’s commit the perfect crime… I’ll steal your heart, and you steal mine.

I like long walks, especially when they're taken by someone who annoys me. (Fred Allen)

Any idiot can face a crisis. It is the day to day living that wears you out.-Anton Chekhov

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. _ Aristotle

Too many people expect wonders from democracy,when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. _ Walter Winchell

Robin Morgan (January 29, 1941 - )
 

Robin Morgan is known for her feminist activism and writing. She is a poet, a novelist, and has also written non-fiction. Several of her anthologies are classics of feminism, including Sisterhood Is Powerful.

Robin Morgan served as an editor of Ms. Magazine 1990-1993 after serving as a contributing editor for many years.

Robin Morgan, as a child actress, had a radio show and appeared on the television series I Remember Mama.

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• It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

• We are the women men warned us about.

• And let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism -- the lie that there can be such a thing as "men's liberation groups." Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a "threatening" characteristic shared by the latter group -- skin color or sex or age, etc.

• In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men -- but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

• [A] legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women —- with men relating to that the best they can.

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

"....there is a limit circumscribed to your time - if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return." --Marcus Aurelius

"But nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her.
"They don't bite anybody except in self-defense..."

-- Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren).


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Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattller. -Latin Proverb


The timid are frightened before danger, a coward during, the brave are frightened afterwards.- Jean Paul Richter

In doing what we ought, we deserve no praise. -Latin Proverb

Susan Faludi (April 18, 1959 - )
 

Susan Faludi is a journalist who wrote Backlash:The Undeclared War against Women, 1991, which argued that feminism and women's rights were undermined by the media and corporations -- just as the previous wave of feminism lost ground to a previous version of backlash, convincing women that feminism and not inequality was the source of their frustration.

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• Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

• The internal qualities once said to embody manhood - sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose -- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.

• The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?” ― John Lennon

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