#border

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #empowerment #limitations #literature #literature-quotes

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries. ↗

— Kate Zambreno

#women-writers #men

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ↗

— Hu Shih

#border #centuries #china #conquered #culturally

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#barriers #between #border #england #extension

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#borders #burma #china #clearly #economy

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#come #fight #here #leaves #our

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#fact #in fact #indicted #more #northern

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#borders #called #control #controlling #destiny

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#both #coming #country #into #northern