Women Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.

  Elayne Boosler

  Mother, Home, Eye

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Religious, Hangover, Religion

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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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• ...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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• 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 moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

  Mary Somerville

  Age, Moral, Disposition

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.508

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• To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Spiritual, Healing, Imagination

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

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• His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Abundance, Conversation

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2010). “Notes to the Complete Poetical Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Circles, Two, Perfection

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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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• i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

  Ani DiFranco

  Religion, Cards, Hallmark

  Song: Superhero, Album: Dilate, 1996

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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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• 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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• 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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• One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

  Marguerite Duras

  Conversation

  Marguerite Duras (1968). “The Vice-Consul”, Hamish Hamilton

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• But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

  Marietta Holley

  Depth, Goes On, Length

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• That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Art, Conversation, Amenities

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1962). “Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals: A Sparkling Panorama of "La Belle Epoque", Its Gilded Society, Irrepressible Wits and Splendid Courtesans”

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• Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Christian, Knitting, Names

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• Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

  Laura Riding

  Succeed, Disputes, Conversation

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Self, Law, Essence

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• I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mother, Running, Strong

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• My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

  Jessie Sampter

  Home, Heart, White

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• It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Worry, Privilege

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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