Determination and skill come out of a depth of political and cultural experiences. Women resist and are brave in the most ordinary...-seeming situations: on a welfare line, after being told that medical benefits are going to cut; on a street late at night helping a sister who is being harassed; as a mother demanding that the hospital stop experimenting with sterilization on her daughters; one sister to another trying to convince her to stop shooting up because it's giving the man a victory, swallowing up her life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mi...nd; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off... slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The recovery movement ... is not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intended... audience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired, ...can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplici...ty of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it that people refuse, or are unwilling, to go back to a place where once they have been happy? If you ask them, they will ...say that they do not want to spoil a beautiful memory, or that nothing can ever be the same (a wonderful thing can only happen once!).... Actually I think they may feel afraid that they will be disillusioned, if indeed they have had to convince themselves that a privately dull or ugly event was indeed a glamourous one. Or they may suspect that they are less attractive than they wanted to be, or that the other people are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatter...s with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »