Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Talon]

A heroine doesn't need to speak. When she is gone, the world will speak for her.

[JAGG]

Audacity augments courage.- Publilius Syrus

Character-the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life-is the source from which self-respect springs. -Joan Didion

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.- Latin proverb

[spritzerJ]

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
-- Thomas Jefferson

[FeminineAllure]

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Johnny Depp

[sara-bera]

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” -Anaïs Nin

[Kätzchen]

An excerpt from the liner notes of After the Laughter (Comes Tears): Complete Stax + Volt Rarities 1964-1965 (( Light in the Attic, zine issue 4, winter/spring 2012 )):


"Mama said I could sing. I think all mothers tell their children they can sing, they can act. I believed her," Wendy Rene says, another broad smile creasing her face. "She was the minister of music at our church -- she played piano, organ and violin. Mama had bought me a little organ and I knew how to make some keys on it. Usually, she'd be playing her piano that you'd better not touch. Don't even look at it too hard! While she was playing it, I'd get a feel for her music, but not her music, because I'd be listening to WLOK and I would fall in love with the words, fall in love with the story, and sit out back and write a song. And Johnny would have us doing secular music, although my daddy didn't go for that and mama would be, 'Are you finished with that'?"

~ Wendy Rene

[Kobi]

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

~ 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.

~ 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.

[Tony]

"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy."

Sorry, don't know the author, but hell, it coulda been me. Lol

[deedarino]

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty, and your purpose when you are confused~Alan Cohen

[Tucker]

‎"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

[sara-bera]

"I’m not a romantic, but even I must concede that the heart does not exist solely for the purpose of pumping blood.." -Violet Crawley (Downton Abbey)

[stargazingboi]

William Wordsworth

Perfect Woman

SHE was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light.

[Semantics]

She goes out into the cold night
to search for the She
with the guts.
Death is firmest where it is fluid.
A bucket rises with my body in it.
She looks in it and says, Well, there you are,
chopped up in little pieces, and sure enough,
no guts either.


by Stan Rice

[Tucker]

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”

[deedarino]

Wont you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
~Richard B. Sheridan

[Kobi]

Margaret Fuller, American writer, journalist, and philosopher, was part of the Transcendentalist circle. Margaret Fuller's "conversations" encouraged the women of Boston to develop their intellectual capacities. In 1845 Margaret Fuller published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, now considered an early feminist classic.
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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

• Let it not be said, whenever there is energy or creative genius, "She has a masculine mind."

[Tony]

No good deed goes unpunished.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.

Karma is a bitch. (thankfully).

It is what it is. (my life mantra).

[Talon]

A hero is also someone who is branded as being a coward for not doing something when he knows it may hurt others.

[Kätzchen]

"Float like a butterfly: Sting like a bee,"

(Cassius Clay ~>> Muhammad Ali)

[Kätzchen]

Luck exists in the leftovers (literally).

Meaning: There is luck in the last helping.