“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as women are divided by dichotomies that stem from gender oppression, e.g., virgin versus whore, respectable versus unrespectable, and, ultimately, wife versus the other woman, all of which puts women in competition for men, they will not be able to effectively challenge the structures that support some while not supporting others, and in some cases, even exploiting them.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“Social scientists report that before European colonialism in Africa, prostitution did not even exist.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“For those who have a desire to know, and those in the throes of desire.”
Source: The (In)Fidelity Factor
“Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.”
Source: The Arcades Project
“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“Eventually the Collector from the prophecy would be born.”
Source: The Sin Collector: Thomas
“I’m beginning to realise that I’m either overly sentimental, or am a hoarder who struggles to part with things. In all honesty, I’m probably both.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth,” Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.”
Source: The Secret of Lost Things
“Edwin Carson is the greatest living authority on precious stones in the world. The only reason why he isn't acclaimed as such in public and in the Press is that his methods of collecting his jewels--he's got an amazing collection, I believe--is not supposed to be all that it might be.”
Source: Weekend at Thrackley