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“I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human a...”
“He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up yo...”
“Sometimes, people dont need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.”
“Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King”
“How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her...”
“our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality.”
“Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.”
“But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.”
“The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't h...”
“I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my chest as teats for the suckling of young, and their physical resemblance to udders on cows or the s...”
“Men and womenthey are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.”
“Women are womenHow can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!”
“More often than not, the ideal breast is an invented breast. Decolletage, the tushy breast, is an artifact of clothing. Naked breasts don't dance cheek to cheek--they turn away from each other. Bre...”
“I was banished from that world forever, I knew. I couldn't go back now. One day soon I would go away from here entirely; I would leave this house, perhaps never to return.I hugged myself, comfortin...”
“THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But therell be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there wont! ...”
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by def...”
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
“The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times teach us that the positive meaning of death is precisely that it liberates us from the p...”
“I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?”
“Holographic Theory shows that it is possible for our bodies to make decisions based on the experience of others.”
