Stacy Schiff Quotes

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

Stacy Schiff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1961

Topics

WomenWomanIntelligenceManGame

Every country has a dark side of their history.

Miyavi

HistoryDarkCountryDark SideSide

Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising - and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn't a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.

Jay-Z

LeaderMusicAdvertisingCareLoss

I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.

Cherie Lunghi

WomenAgeMyselfI AmGrowPlay

No one ever takes my side.

Chris Noth

SideTakesEver

The soul has no gender.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

SoulGender

I don't want to be bothered when I'm stretching. I need to focus.

Bobby Lashley

FocusWantNeedStretchingBothered

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

Bruno Mars

FatherMotherChildMomBrooklyn

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Ally Sheedy

LoveMotherMyselfWomanManGrow

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

LifePurposePossibilitiesInfinite

You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that destruction and apologizing for it.

Susanna Fogel

WomenYouRealisticGoingAware

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Persius

WorkDayMenTomorrowHeavenFools

I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But we all know what we're insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, 'How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don't like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?'

Tyler Joseph

LoveFriendLiveMyselfWriting

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