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“Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.”

Thinking Way Years Wells Pay Alive Equal Years Ago Australia Forty Sexism Optimist Equal Pay

Author:Jacki Weaver

“Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.”

Thinking Giving Feels Eye Able Felt Walks Behinds Seeing Streets Movement Equal Leaving Obligation Wander Emptiness Reducing Wandering Aimlessly

Author:Paul Auster

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.”

Ifs Thinking World Life Two Social Voice Answers Alive Equal Unique Importance Claims Strive Complicated Billions Intense

Book:Atonement

Source: Atonement

“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”

Thinking Writing Done Atheism Equal Despair Positive Atheism Harm

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”

“As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Problem Reality Feminism Media Huge Equal Mass Majority Males Folks Feminist Seeking Sexism Misunderstanding Mass Media

Author:Bell Hooks

“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.”

Ifs Thinking Men Politics Freedom Democracy Equal Equality

Author:Aristotle

“I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.”

Thinking Knows World I Can Environment This World Bears Equal Obvious Setting Settings Corporate

Book:Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”

Thinking Men Love Is Equal Lust Astonishment

Book:Bag Of Bones: A Novel

Source: Bag Of Bones: A Novel

“To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.”

People Thinking Love Dream Speak Quiet Equal Silent Sufficient Indifferent One Love

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“For thousands of years what men has done to women is simply monstrous. She cannot think of herself as equal as man. & she has been conditioned so deeply that even if u say she is equal, she is not going to believe it. It has become almost her mind, the conditioning has become her mind, that she is less in everithing. & the man who has reduced the women to such a state also cannot love her. LOVE CAN EXIST ONLY IN EQUALITY, IN FRIENDSHIP”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Mind Believe Has Beens States Done Equal Conditioning Monstrous

Author:Rajneesh

“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”

Thinking Two Equal Ambition Curiosity Curious Ambitious Being Equal

Book:A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.”

“I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.”

Thinking Knows Way Said Stills I Can Bits Hurt Promise Equal Fingers Killing Lips Irony Truthful Cheeks Thumbs Bruised Being Truthful Getting Hurt Promise Me

Book:One Dance with a Duke

Source: One Dance with a Duke

“D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.”