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“Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.”

Safety Rejection Rejects Conventions Retreat Inevitability Subordination

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.”

Needs Heart Littles I Can My Own Cases Broken Areas Safety Retreat Heart Broke

Author:Suzi Quatro

“The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.”

War Country Today Safety Spots Stakes Retreat Faltering

Author:Joseph Joffre

“Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives ... We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.”

Challenges Differences Our Lives Media Communication Majors Safety Making A Difference Zone Retreat Safety Zone

Author:Walter Mikac

“A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.”

Men Wells May Soul Courses Danger Weakness Safety Well Being Sanity Cowardice Retreat Accused Prudent Inexplicable Fleeing

Author:Susan Hill

“Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.”

Reason Fear Atheism Limits Tools Opposites Safety Rage Surrender Being True Rejects Strict Retreat Freethinker Great Escape

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.”

World Body Spirit Nature Challenges Land Offers Safety Environmental Welcome Parks Units Retreat Contemplative Respite Valve

Author:T. H. Watkins

“Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.”

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.”

Two Military Essentials Army Safety Retreat Supplies

Book:Mahan on Naval Warfare

Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare

“Faced with the prospect of a black depression, Highsmith once again retreated into fantasy, dreaming about an affair with the actress Anne Meacham, whose picture she had seen in a magazine publicising her role in the Tennessee Williams' play, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. After the disasters of recent years, she reckoned that the safest option was to escape into romantic imagination. She reviewed her failures over the past five years and concluded that 'the moral is: stay alone. Any idea of any close relationship should be imaginary, like any story I am writing. This way no harm is done to me or to any other person'.”

Source: Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι