Women Quotes - Page 32

• I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

  Denise Levertov

  Home, Eagles, Knowing

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Integrity, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.55, Routledge

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• I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

  Maxine Kumin

  Home, Light, Hands

  Maxine Kumin (1987). “In deep: country essays”, Viking Pr

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• In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

  Rachel Simon

  Religious, Adversity, Religion

  Rachel Simon (1894). “Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890”

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• Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

  Jennifer Egan

  Home, Plans, Needed

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• There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.

  Lily Montagu

  Religion, Would Be, Worship Service

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• How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

  Mary Davys

  Children, Blood, Roots

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• It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.

  Susan Jacoby

  Spiritual, Father, Thinking

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• That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

  Riane Eisler

  Christian, War, Effort

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• One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Writing, Adventure

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• It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.

  Merlin Stone

  Cutting, Years, Sea

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• I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Religious, Home, Religion

  Vanessa L. Ochs (1992). “Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred”, Harvest Books

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• Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

  Tillie Olsen

  Blood, Religion, Mouths

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Office, Religion, Church

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.16, tredition

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• [There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.

  Gerda Lerner

  Christian, Religious, Expression

  Gerda Lerner (1994). “The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Religious, Hangover, Religion

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• He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Smart, Moving, Ignorance

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• In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.

  Luisa Valenzuela

  Boredom, Sitting, Next

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• Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.

  Lily Montagu

  Prayer, Soul, Religion

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• The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Devil, Tongue, Conversation

  St Catherine of Siena (2007). “Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

  Barbara Walters

  Art, People, Fake

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• He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.

  Dacia Maraini

  Conversation, Knows

  Dacia Maraini (1966). “The holiday: a novel”

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• ...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Religion, Goes On, Spirit

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1825). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage”, p.121

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• Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.

  Lily Montagu

  Believe, Fighting, Law

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