“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughWould BeLyingRealizingPlanetsSkillsSmartFemaleTendenciesProgrammersBiased Author:Erik Naggum
“A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.” WorldTwoChristianLyingGivenSexSidesHalfEssentialsFemaleMalesHumbleInequalityObedienceGatesIdenticalGod ImageTrue FreedomDifferentiationLiberatorsChristian Women Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.” PeopleWantProblemLyingFemaleHollywoodDriven Author:Charlize Theron
“I think that more so, my wonderful skill of dissociation came in very handy. I care very much what other people think. I'm a total pleaser. I want everyone to like me all the time. I feel like people who don't feel that way on some level are lying, but particularly female memoirists. We want to be seen and we want to be forgiven. So that occurred to me very early on.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsCareLyingLevelsWonderfulSkillsFemaleLike MeI CareForgivenDissociationHandyPleasers Author:Melissa Febos
“Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they make death. That strikes me as a far more powerful stance than the weak lies told about mothering.” WritingLyingPowerfulFemaleWeakMotheringFemale Body Author:Samantha Hunt
“No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.” DifferentLyingFemaleTraits Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?” NeedsDifferentRealPlayTruthScienceLyingCertainOrderAnimalCenturyFlowerResearchFemaleBreathsPlantSpeciesMalesCodeFlashInsectsFireflyReal Truth Book:Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony