#ages

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#early #early stages #insomnia #oasis #refuge

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right. ↗

— Toni Collette

#also #different #different things #getting #having

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. ↗

— Phil Collins

#ages #before #class #early #except

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#against #am #flame #hasty #i

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#children #clowns #drink #living #out

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#culture #images #media #whoever

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#desire #excess #sages #sick

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. ↗

— Pete Coors

#benefits #breweries #demonstrate #fly #gays