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«Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
exploited, idealize, idealized, idealizing, in history, powerlessness
«I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.»
«We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases»
«The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Truth
| Keywords:
idealize, idealized, idealizing, purely, represent, sculpture, truthfulness
«For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
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«Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
anticipate, anticipates, condemned, flee, idealize, idealized, idealizing, imaginary, imagining, inhabit, nostalgia, tendency, with nostalgia
«Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Expectation,
Ideals
| Keywords:
analyse, expectations, games, genuineness, growing, idealize, idealized, idealizing, live up to, nurtured, nurtures, nurturing, over, playing, relationship, Relationships, stop, up to
«Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| Keywords:
expectations, idealize, idealized, idealizing, live up to, up to
«I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
equality, idealize, idealized, idealizing, The Passion
«The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
People,
World
| Keywords:
idealize, idealized, idealizing, satisfactory
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