“As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.” MatterSexLosesGainsMarkOperationsPoundsSex Change Author:Todd Solondz
“... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.” OrderGivenSexDutyGainsAdvantageOrganizationWomens RightsAgitation Author:Catharine Beecher
“When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.” MenStatesGovernmentWishSexGainsLaborIndependenceInstitutionsTrainConnectedProfessionEmploymentSecureDepartmentHonorableCompensation Author:Catharine Beecher
“The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.” MenSexNiceProveGainsWeightBlindNice ThingsViagraGreat Sex Author:Joan Rivers
“Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I guess midrash makes sense. How does it change in the course of the sequence? Well, God is into No and into Stasis/Nouns. Adam and Eve, in order to be in this world (and get this world going) must choose verbs. Which is to gain sex but also to choose death and all else that goes with change. To choose becoming over being.” WorldWellsMeanDoeBookEndsWholeOrderCoursesLanguageSexThis WorldBecomingGainsMake SenseTitlesThemeAdamSequenceVerbsAdam And EveNounsStasis Author:Gregory Orr