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Adrienne Mayor Quotes

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1946

Topics

Women Vision Equality Thinking Used

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Fear Compassion Moral Enemies Things

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Political Comedy Always Been

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Day Football Brother Me Basketball

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

Life Faith Man Spiritual Strong Who

As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find on the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need.

Grow Find Lost Sometimes Lift Need

I don't waste energy thinking about who I prefer and who I don't.

Julen Lopetegui

Energy Thinking Waste Who About

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

Challenge Me Doing Look Want Up

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

Live Bike Paris Go Street Rent

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Douglas Coupland

Royalty Cloning Disappear Going Well

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Passion Sin Only Commit

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

You Go Places Up Going Fed Up

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

Flowers House White My Own Out Own

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