some quotes of the day
QUOTES DU JOUR
LEWIS, ANN:
"The Glass Ceiling isn't actually made of glass... it's a very thick layer of men."
-- Ann Lewis, Democratic political consultant.
ACKERMAN, DIANE:
"I don''t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
-- Diane Ackerman, published poet, teacher, cowhand, and pilot.
ALLEN, PAULA GUNN:
"In the Native American tradition ... a man, if he''s a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.
-- Paula Gunn Allen, U.S./Native American author.
ALLISON, DOROTHY:
"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. - - -
"There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined. "
-- Dorothy Allison , U.S. author and lesbian feminist.
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