Quotes About Boundaries

I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.

The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap from roof to roof.

try not to sleep with our sister's husbands

There is the world as it exists, and then, just next to it, the world one creates in order to exist. The boundaries limited only by ones imagination.

shout, "Enough!

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

You know I've always wanted to break the molds which life forms around one if one lets them. -Why? -I want to trespass boundaries, erase all identifications, anything which fixes one permanently into one mold, one place, without hope of change.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

No privacy left. No manners.

I do not need to be a selfless child, or a woman giving to the point of self-annihilation.

One of my notes says: "Correct Anaïs' English." Do you want me to do that, or would Hugo consider that I am encroaching on his private domain?

You might as well expect of Brancusi that he give us his masterpieces in fried bread crumbs or apple sauce. Can't be done.

A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it.

Men have the power of naming, a great and sublime power. This power of naming enables men to define experience, to articulate boundaries and values, to designate to each thing it's realm and qualities, to determine what can and cannot be expressed to control perception itself. [...] The world is his because he has named everything in it, including her. She uses this language against herself because it cannot be used any other way.

Can a man read a book written by a woman in which she, the author, has a direct relationship to experience, ideas, literature, life, including fucking, without mediation-such that what she says and how she says it are not determined by boundaries men have set for her?

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.

Don't Think Outside the Box—Find the Box

Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.

Whatever anybody else thinks of you is none of your business.

It's clear that identity is a finite concept. What's not clear is the location of its boundaries.

Build into every single day an hour, for everyone in the household, free from the promises and demands of our devices.

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

Art is what you get away with