Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky arse, a sexy voice. Maybe ...I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There would have to be something wrong with someone who could throw out a child's first Valentine card saying, "I love you, Mommy...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Genius sits in a glass house--but in an unbreakable one--conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches ou...t its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck.... (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. "New art," it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in "ism.")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain't gonna take a man's only set of teeth, are ya? Quo: Uh huh.... Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use 'em for eatin'. Quo: Come grub you get 'em. Groot: Whad ya' gonna do with 'em? Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a ...prince as soon as his groom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper. The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the w...idow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When someone borrows an animal from another and it is injured or dies, the owner not being present, full restitution shall be made.... If the owner was present, there shall be no restitution; if it was hired, only the hiring fee is due.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »