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“Durante lo spoglio scandisce il nome della dc Ines Boffardi tra i sorrisi e le battute sarcastiche di diversi colleghi. «C'è poco da ridere», li zittisce. «Anche una donna può diventare presidente, lo sapete?». Sembra di no.”

Donne Sessismo

Book:Stai zitta e va' in cucina: Breve storia del maschilismo in politica da Togliatti a Grillo

Source: Stai zitta e va' in cucina: Breve storia del maschilismo in politica da Togliatti a Grillo

“È una stanza rovinata dagli uomini nel tentativo di renderla bella per le donne. Gli uomini non sanno quello che vogliamo.”

Donne Uomini Arredamento

Author:E. M. Forster

“Ti promisi che sarei stata paziente e che sempre avrei cercato di spiegarti le cose con calma e serenità, promisi che ti avrei amata tutta la vita qualunque cosa fosse successa, promisi che ti avrei protetta da tutto e che non ti avrei imposto nulla, che ti avrei lasciata libera di scegliere sempre ciò che volevi diventare, essere o fare.”

Vita Donne Scelta Maternità Cambio Sesso Esseremadre

Author:Silvia Ferreri

“All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.”

Men Problem Lasts Turns Stuff Oneself Lovely Analysis Islands Load Crap Donne

Author:Kenneth Williams

“Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.”

Heaven Grief Wife Donne Chagrin

Author:Louis XIV

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

Men Self Given Causes Natural Simple Sacrifice Possibility Benefits Reflection Everyday Oneself Engaged Everyday Life Self Sacrifice Donne

Author:African Spir

“And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.”

Ifs Knows Police Donne Felony

Book:Birthday letters

Source: Birthday letters

“Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through which few labor, which no men retract. This passion is the scholar's heritage”

Men Years Poetry Passion Lines Poet Labor Heritage Scholar Donne Raleigh

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.”

“I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.”

Knows Enough Enjoy Clever Offering Enjoyable Donne

Book:The Designated Mourner

Source: The Designated Mourner

“Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.”

Understanding Verses Drs Donne

Author:King James I

“Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.”

Thinking Feels Poet Rose Sensibility Donne Tennyson

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.”

Facts Dickens Hardy Joyce Wilde Eliot Donne Yeats

Book:A Question of Attraction: A Novel

Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”

Wave Shore Farewell Donne Chum

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“I still read Donne, particularly his love poems”

Stills Poetry Reading Books His Love Love Poems Donne

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.”

Believe Poet Doctrine Bread Priests Brake Donne Commemoration

Author:John Donne

“Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)”

Country Pay Wind Envy European Countries Donne Turbines

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.”

Style Faults Metaphor Tendencies Multitudes Disposition Conceit Employing Donne

Author:Sidney Lanier

“I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.”

Want Hard States Kids School Law Fun Interest Acting Teacher Inspire Brother Horrible In-laws Milton English Teacher Donne Brother In Law

Author:John Mahoney