But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints. Entirely out ...of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we focus mostly on how we might have been partly or wholly to blame for what might have been less than a perfect, problem- free... childhood, our guilt will overwhelm their pain. It becomes a story about us, not them. . . . When we listen, accept, and acknowledge, we feel regret instead, which is simply guilt without neurosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, wome...n are beginning to rise in response to the Mother's call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who can measure the advantages that would result if the magnificent abilities of these women could be devoted to the needs of gove...rnment, society and home, instead of being consumed in the struggle to obtain their birthright of individual freedom? Until this be gained we can never know, we can not even prophesy the capacity and power of women for the uplifting of humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,... who has moments of intense anger and of negative feelings which are not integrated into that large body of responses, impressions and emotions we call 'our feelings for someone,' but instead they are coming from someone who is seen to know what she does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's why I quit and took up writing poetry instead. It's clean, it's relaxing, it doesn't squirt juice all over... Something you were certain of a minute ago and now your own face Is a stranger and no one can tell you it's true. Hey, stupid!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the lon...ger you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, b...ut, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my w...ords. My language trembles with desire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the popula...ce to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »