Quotes for All
There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: struggle is the highest form of song. I love that. We are in the struggle. It’s like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It’s not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women’s … Read more
We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority. Eve Ensler
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. Eve Ensler
Everyone was like, Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com? My response was, I certainly don’t need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I’d been dating my whole life. I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that … Read more
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, We are all writing God’s poem, I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common … Read more
Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn’t fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we’ve been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn’t particularly special. What I’m trying to convey in … Read more
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction. Elizabeth Janeway
Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential … Read more
You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a guy going through the front door. All of those, in cyber terms, are vulnerabilities, because it’s not that you have to look for one hole of a specific type. It’s the whole paradigm. … Read more
A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it. You have a new discovery that something’s working in a different way than you thought. And this is particularly true in molecular and cell biology, which is structural biology and has the least … Read more