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#1

“Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but there is something wrong about gluttony; there is no sin in thirst, but there is a sin in drunkenness; there is nothing wrong with a man who seeks economic security, but there is something wrong with a man who is avaricious; there is nothing to be despised in knowledge, but there is something to be condemned in pride; there is nothing wrong with the flesh, but there is something wrong in the abuse of the flesh. Just as dirt is matter in the wrong place, so sin is flesh in the wrong place. Sex has its place in that area of life designed for its fruition, but the misuse of it outside of that natural and supernatural bond is wrong.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married

tags: sex, sin

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#2

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication

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#3

“My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

tags: islam, modesty, purpose, women

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#4

“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, humble, humility, humor, humour, importance, important, insightful, life, life-goes-on, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, modest, modesty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, really, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, truly

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#5

“Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.”
― Douglas Wilson, 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life: Defining Your Dating Style

tags: art-form, attractive, attractiveness, immodest, immodesty, modest, modesty, repulsive, repulsiveness

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#6

“If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: decency, decent, dignity, directive, diretion, don-t-lie, don-t-tell-lies, fame, food-for-thought, honesty, honour, identity, insecure, insecurity, integrity, israelmore-ayivor, kinds, kinds-of, liar, lie, lose, lost, modest, modesty, obey, pride, priority, secure, security, sense, sensitive, sensitivity, tell-the-truth, truth, truthful, weather

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#7

“The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.”
― Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

tags: modesty, respect, sexual-difference

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#8

“God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.”
― Farrah Fawcett

tags: femininity, intuition, women

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#9

“It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove that they can do all the things women do. Why subject women to purely masculine criteria? Women can and ought to be judged by the criteria of femininity, for it is in their femininity that they participate in the human race. And femininity has its limitations. So has masculinity. That is what we’ve been talking about. To do this is not to do that. To be this is not to be that. To be a woman is not to be a man. To be married is not to be single - which may mean not to have a career. To marry this man is not to marry all the others. A choice is a limitation.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

tags: antifeminism, christianity, femininity, men-and-women

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#10

“Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.”
― Gwen Sharp

tags: femininity, feminist

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#11

“Because misogynists are the best of men.” All the poets reacted to these words with hooting. Boccaccio was forced to raise his voice: “Please understand me. Misogynists don’t despise women. Misogynists don’t like femininity. Men have always been divided into two categories. Worshipers of women, otherwise known as poets, and misogynists, or, more accurately, gynophobes. Worshipers or poets revere traditional feminine values such as feelings, the home, motherhood, fertility, sacred flashes of hysteria, and the divine voice of nature within us, while in misogynists or gynophobes these values inspire a touch of terror. Worshipers revere women’s femininity, while misogynists always prefer women to femininity. Don’t forget: a woman can be happy only with a misogynist. No woman has ever been happy with any of you!”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

tags: femininity, misogynist, women

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#12

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women

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#13

“In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged him (Confessions IV, 10). Then he draws a moral. This is what comes, he says, of giving one’s heart to anything but God. All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only Beloved who will never pass away.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: charity

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#14

“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: patience, power, timing, waiting

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#15

“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: god-s-ways, heartbreak

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#16

“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism, marriage, men, women

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#17

“We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

tags: catholic, catholicism

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#18

“The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

tags: catholic, cooperation, freedom, initiative, man, nature, sympathy, woman

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#19

“To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: priceless

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#20

“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: salvation

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#21

“We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: catholicism, christ, christianity, cross, excess-love, god, inspirational, jesus, jesus-shock, love, philosophy, salvation, saved, saved-souls, sin, spirituality, the-cross, theology

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#22

“When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

tags: menstruation

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#23

“Some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

tags: adam, curse, eve, menstruation, women

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#24

“The shedding of blood has historically been seen as a male act of heroism: from right-of-passage fistfights, to contact sports and combat. Infrequent, random events seen as standalone milestones; stories to tell once the pain - and enough time - has passed. Female bleeding is more mundane, more frequent, more getonwithit, despite its existence being the reason that every single life begins”
― Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations: Reflections From Life

tags: feminism, menstruation, sexism

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#25

“One day the girl is taking a bath and calls out. The widow comes into the tiny bathroom and the water surrounding the girl’s legs is clouded with crimson. She slaps the girl in the face and smiles and kisses her on the cheeks. She says, “May you bloom.” The girl doesn’t flinch. The widow tells her, “This is the first language of your body. It is the word ne. When you bleed each month, as when the moon comes and goes in its journey, you leave the world of men. You enter the body of all women, who are connected to all of nature.” The girl asks, “Why is it the word ne?” The widow responds, “When you bleed, this word is more powerful than any word you could ever speak. It is a blood word. It binds you to animals and trees and the moon and the sun. Where men take blood in the world in hunting and war, women give blood. It is the word ne because it closes the room of a woman’s body to men.” The widow places her hands into the water and says, “Good. You are alive. You and I are alive.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children

tags: menstruation, woman

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#26

“Never trust something that bleeds for seven days and doesn't die”
― Linda Kage, The Right to Remain Mine

tags: did-he-really-say-that, menstruation

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#27

“Menstruation annoys the most females who lack the desire to someday fall pregnant.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: childfree, childless, feminism, menstruation, motherhood, periods, pregnancy, pregnant, sanitary-pads

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#28

“No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: jinnah, nation, women, women-s-rights

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#29

“When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

tags: childbirth, empathy, women, women-s-rights

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#30

“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abuse, blaming, bullied, cheated-on, choices, daughter-of-god, dumped, embarrassed, emotional-abuse, games, hated, humiliated, hurt, hurting-you, ignored, lack-of-respect, lied-to, lies, not-good-enough, not-nice, not-pretty, options, overlooked, physical-abuse, self-centeredness, self-esteem, self-respect, sexual-abuse, sons-of-god, taken-for-granted, tortured, verbal-abuse, women-empowerment

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