As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.
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Elana K. Arnold
In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
I'm more haunted by how what I've said and the things I've done have caused harm to myself and others than I am worried that God will punish me for being bad. Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as...
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Nadia BolzWeber
And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.
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Jennifer Clarvoe
Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shacking up with a German assassin. She felt tears again in her eyes, boiling. For all I have committed. Wrecked. 'Let's go, ' she said, rising to her...
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Philip K. Dick
More Quotes By Juvenal
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
Honesty is admired, and starves.
Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?
