#fear

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. ↗

— Rita Dove

#age #apprehensive #every #every time #feared

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#beauty #fear #freedom #lies #safe

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#being #being different #believes #country #different

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death. ↗

— A.C. Swinburne The Triumph Of Time

#fear #life #death

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ↗

— Will Durant

#fears #hopes #minds #most #people

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#anger #anxiety #components #even #exist

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fear #get #life #live #mugged

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#being #china #christian #far #fears

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#disease #experience #fear #made #manifest