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Quotes About Boundaries

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those differences.
~ Audre Lorde
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those differences. Nor do the reservoirs of our ancient power know these boundaries. To deal with one without even alluding to the other is to distort our commonality a well as our difference. For then beyond sisterhood is still racism.
~ Audre Lorde
Afraid is a country where they issue us passports at birth and hope we never seek citizenship in any other country.
~ Audre Lorde
she wants me to embrace her, but I do not want to abuse eros, or her.
~ August Strindberg
Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.
~ Augusten Burroughs
And that was one thing I didn't want: NO CASUAL SEX. I thought it was disgusting, the idea of just screwing around and then that's it.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Not all gay men send me penis pictures. But no straight men do. And to date, no woman has sent me a picture of her vaginal canal. 'I know it's a little stretched out, but I've had four kids. What do you expect? LOL.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
~ Augusto Boal
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others. - Howard Roark
~ Ayn Rand
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.
~ Ayn Rand
I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need.
~ Ayn Rand
Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.
~ Ayn Rand
A woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person." —QUINTILIAN
~ Stacy Schiff
Gibarian belonged to what may well have been the last generation of researchers who had the courage to refer back to the glory days of optimism and were not averse to their own kind of faith, which went beyond the boundaries laid
~ Stanis?aw Lem
As one whose genius has been duly certified by several dozen learned biographers, I think I may say a word or two on the topic of intellectual summits; which is simply that clarity of thought is a shining point in a vast expanse of unrelieved darkness. Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom, and its typical cowardice is to bathe in its own glow and avoid, as much as possible, looking out beyond its boundary.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
We need images that move us beyond language, law, and custom; that hurl us beyond the boundaries of our lives to the space between worlds, where we can see clear.
~ Starhawk
You do not get to choose how others love you. All you can do is honor their choice if they bless you with their love.
~ Stephanie Rowe
No. You do not get to choose how others love you. All you can do is honor their choice if they bless you with their love. She
~ Stephanie Rowe
Try to be a filter, not a sponge.
~ Stephen Chbosky
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Charlie, don't you get it? I can't feel that. It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.
~ Stephen Chbosky
And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.
~ Stephen Chbosky
And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.
~ Stephen Chbosky