Adrienne Rich Quotes, Eye Quotes, Survival Quotes

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Eye Quotes

The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Eye Quotes , Black And White Quotes

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Mean Quotes , Eye Quotes

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Betrayal Quotes , Eye Quotes

O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Eye Quotes

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Eye Quotes , Exercise Quotes

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hero Quotes , Eye Quotes

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Eye Quotes , Leaves Of Grass Quotes

I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

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Tags : Adam Carolla Quotes , Eye Quotes , Color Quotes

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Life Quotes , Eye Quotes

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Eye Quotes , Body Quotes