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“[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.”
― Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
― Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
“Nature was passionate and unpredictable and could undermine the relationship between God and man, based as it was on obedience.”
― The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland
― The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland
“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon them suddenly all problems would subside.”
― On Beauty and Being Just
― On Beauty and Being Just
“I suppose I think that having a child is simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing. And I want that- to prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed but love and care. To prove it to whom, I wonder. Myself, maybe.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.”
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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