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«If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?»
Author: Sally Struthers
| About:
God,
Women
| Keywords:
acceptable, breast, breasted, chopping, chop off, Forbade, forbid, forbidding, kissing, pictured, rating, ratings, tenderness, violence
«My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
domestic, exquisite, homey, murders, performed, tenderness
«I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.»
«Tenderness is the repose of Passion»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| About:
Passion,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
repose, reposed, reposes, reposing, tenderness
«Tenderness is a virtue.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Tenderness
| Keywords:
tenderness
«In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
beaming, beams, fondness, his mother, knee, maternal, protecting, shed, strain, tenderness
«Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Kindness
| Keywords:
despair, Despaired, despairs, kindness, manifestations, resolution, signing, signs, sign in, sign on, sign over, sign up, strength, tenderness, weakness
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
attainment, comforts, commerce, endeared, endearing, for the most part, not able, purchased, remotely, tenderness
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