342 quotes found
“Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.”
“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand th...”
“At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. I...”
“Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princesslythis wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.”
“Though her body fit with his like a puzzle piece, his mind was an ever-shifting riddle she felt she could study her whole life and never fully solve. She spent the most time touching him, caressing...”
“His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.”
“Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.”
“They ignored her because of their headphones, a thousand people marching to fifteen hundred different drummers, effectively secluded but for a very basic instinct not to bump into one another. Thos...”
“In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, out of the nothing came the Word and the Word was power. Every utterance of the Word gave form to the Void, starting with beings to utter the Word. There ...”
“I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They dont want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they ...”
“You kill by consent, every time you let something pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.”
“Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.”
“You belong to the world. Dont be afraid to be a part of it.”
“God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.”
“When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I c...”
“Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.”
“When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious de...”
“I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.”
“She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two.”
“Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.”
