Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look. The parameters of acceptability as far as physical appearance go are so limiting that only a handful of women actually fall into this category. And the rest of us are left to either squeeze ourselves into molds that don't fit, hating ourselves all the while, or we just give up entirely. Yancy Lael
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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Peter Ustinov
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
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Joel Salatin
Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such...
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Tiffany Madison
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are...
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E.m. Forster
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
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Kevin Alan Lee
More Quotes By Yancy Lael
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
