Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Marya Hornbacher

Quote by Marya Hornbacher

“One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in my memory, with the dark womb of church: the chant, the fugue of prayer, the strange erotic energy that carving a very small cross into my thigh with a nail had brought.”

Quote by Marya Hornbacher

Create image

Author

Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher

Marya Hornbacher is an American author known for her memoirs, which offer profound insights into mental health and the struggles of marginal lifestyles. Born on April 4, 1974, her works are based on her own experiences, including severe eating disorders and mental health issues. more

You May Also Like

“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”

IfsMenHeartSelfSpiritualLawHumanitySexMoralGreaterSacrificeInjusticeIntuitionSuperiorsAppealsEnduranceNonviolenceBrutesLibelGreater Power
Book:Young India
Create image

“Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore, finds himself inclined to envy another, should remember that he knows not the real condition which he desires to obtain, but is certain that by indulging a vicious passion, he must lessen that happiness which he thinks already too sparingly bestowed.”

ThinkingKnowsShouldRealStatesCareAgeRememberDesireCertainHumanityPassionSexConditionsEnvyFollyVicious
Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius
Create image

“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”

WritingLittlesPhilosophySexBornPartyNovelModernLonelinessSourceAmbitionAccountsLocalsBombsSquaresDistressDocumentsBourgeoisCocktailsGrudgeSatiricalWhiningObscenityOverpopulationCocktail Parties
Author:Renata Adler
Create image

“Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.”

MayProblemAmericaFacesPoliticalForceSocialCommonAttentionMillionsViolenceStyleHigherSpeechDrawsComplexesRapDimensionsMaterialismYour FaceCrucialMisogynyIgnoredLowestSermonsDomainExclusiveGhettoTransgressionCommon DenominatorSocial ProblemsGangstaLowest Common DenominatorPolitical SpeechesGangsta Rap
Author:Michael Eric Dyson
Create image

“And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.”

KindFactsFacesHonestBabyAdultsWindowParentingGlassesMotherhoodAttractivePercentagesBrutally Honest
Book:I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe
Create image

“. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.”

MenMotherFatherHouseNationsSexWifeSubjectsSonBrotherHusbandDaughterMotherhoodCarrieRebellionHouseholdDiscordOligarchyDissensionWife And Daughter
Author:Susan B. Anthony
Create image