“As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.” LongTakenSubjectsSeriousJudgingBehaviorJudgmentStandardsMalesDefinitionsTraitsQuestioningNorm Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence
“The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.” MenFeelsHumansArtDifferentFactsBodyPoliticalSexImaginationDifferencesCommonOur LivesSubjectsMen And WomenDefinitionsHonestlyIntenseHuman LifeIntensityPower Of ImaginationDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Anne Truitt
“I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.” ThinkingWayShouldWritingDifferentArtistSidesSubjectsDefinitionsPowerlessEmperorPrescribing Author:Chinua Achebe
“It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.” KindMayMeanTwoUniverseProcessSubjectsRelationDefinitionsOperationsMutualDesirable Author:Ada Lovelace
“Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.” PeopleKnowsMadeDealsMistakeWorstSubjectsObjectsDefinitionsFollowingExperts Author:Werner Heisenberg