The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--...Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibi...lity of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has... left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize r...esources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-...housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her hus...band, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or termi...nal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, ...which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors ...we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The discourse of black resistance has always equated freedom with manhood, the economic and material domination of black men with ...castration, emasculation. Accepting these sexual metaphors forged a bond between oppressed black men and their white male oppressors. They shared the patriarchal belief that revolutionary struggle was really about the erect phallus, the ability of men to establish political dominance that could correspond to sexual dominance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »