“He stressed the futility of an encyclopedic knowledge for its own sake, and wound up with the injunction,“Don’t be a damned ammunition wagon; be a rifle!”
― On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
― On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Fashion anticipates, elegance is a state of mind.
-OLEG CASSINI”
― The Style Strategy: A Less-Is-More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart
-OLEG CASSINI”
― The Style Strategy: A Less-Is-More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart
“There was a savoir faire quality to people who lived in America for which he felt both admiration and resentment; they somehow managed to be familiar with all novelty, as if they were privy to the latest of everything and lacked the ability to be surprised.”
― The Visit
― The Visit
“Relinquishing reproductive control to God is, in
fact, relinquishing it to men. Demanding reproductive control is to usurp male sovereignty and acquire what masculinity takes for granted—dominion.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
fact, relinquishing it to men. Demanding reproductive control is to usurp male sovereignty and acquire what masculinity takes for granted—dominion.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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