I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and... release, rise and fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is alwa...ys aspiring and going beyond its strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under equal conditions, the feminine psyche is closer to potential contraction than the masculine; for the simple reason that the ...woman has a more centripetal, integrated, and elastic mind. As we noted, the function charged with giving the mind its structure and cohesion is the attention. A highly unified mind presupposes a highly concentrated manner of attention. One could say that the feminine mind tends to have a single axis of attention, which at each phase of her life is set toward one thing alone.... In contrast to the concentric structure of the feminine mind there are always epicenters in that of the man. The more masculine one is, in a spiritual sense, the more his mind is disjointed in separate compartments. One part of us is deeply dedicated to politics or business, while another devotes itself to intellectual curiosity and another to sexual pleasure. There is lacking, then, a tendency toward one unified gravitation of the attention. In fact, the contrary predominates, which leads to dissociation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They don't realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a ...nice air-conditioned office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and w...ho is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and be...cause we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »