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«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
amniotic, amniotic fluid, conceal, corresponds, depth, female, fluid, fluids, indestructible, menses, monsters, personified, personify, respond, sailors, spawn, spawned, spawning, surface, swallows, The New Moon, threatening, tides, unregulated, unstable, Vessels
«Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.»
Author: Margaret Fuller
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
dualism, female, feminine, fluid, fluids, hardens, masculine, perpetually, purely, radical, represent, rushes, solid
«Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.»
Author: Rennie Ellis
| Keywords:
accompanies, anointing, anoints, belonging, bloke, blokes, confirmation, confirmations, fluid, fluids, intercourse, lubricant, prime, ritual, sink, social intercourse, throat
«No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence»
Author: Smiley Blanton
| About:
Birth,
Love
| Keywords:
fluid, fluids, human existence, life-giving, literally
«?Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.?»
«If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.»
Author: Pythagoras
| Keywords:
calm, depth, fluid, fluids, heat, height, prosperity, rough, smooth, soft, solid, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Friendship,
Opinions
| Keywords:
appearance, eternally, fluid, fluids, kinfolk, permanent, relations, The Sea
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
«Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
body of water, Cold Water, equation, female body, fluids, in darkness, polarity, quantity, reaction, systole, The Animal
«My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.»
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