Quotes About Perception

Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino

To put this the other way round, we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.

To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

The history of art is about how we look. It is not only about the men and women who – with their paints and pencils, their clays and chisels – created the images that fill our world, from cheap trinkets to 'priceless masterpieces'. It is even more about the generations of humankind who have used, interpreted, argued over and given meaning to those images.

The more power flaunts itself in your face, the more it risks undermining its claims to be taken seriously. Ancient viewers were not all naïve consumers of any message that was thrown at them. Even if some would have looked on these statues in awe and wonderment, it is a fair guess that others would have walked by and laughed, or even spat. In the end, images of power are only as powerful as those who view them allow them to be.

One of the purposes of 'culture', after all, is to make seem 'natural' claims that are not naturally at all; the flimsier the argument, the more noisily it is supported.

recognize phrases

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Past and to come seem best things present worst.

Looking down I saw the cat Basket touching me with one of her paws. I hadn't seen her move, though she was a good six

truth is beautiful, even when it is ugly. I

After all, you have just been sold a painting for $1 million, and the cost of making it was probably less than $500.

And there's no need to be nasty about the beard. As I was telling Natalie, it's a nice, well-groomed beard, not just a cover-up for immaturity or unwashedness or acne.

Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.

Kids absorbed more than most parents realized.

She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.

How does a mother tell her child that the memories he holds of his father are incorrect, that the truth does not even remotely resemble the memory? How does she tell him about the gaping holes in the recall that make it all a sham?

But a mother sees her child's shortcomings, even if she doesn't admit to them very often.

The dang man could tell a good story fluffed with terms like gonna do and want to do but he never quite grasped the idea of did.

A shrink?" She threw Jenny a look and said, "He's a psychologist, actually." "Oh. A mini-shrink.

Why do some women feel their only value is in their body? Why do they continue to stuff their shapes into too-tight dresses, their feet into stilettos, their brains into closed vaults that can't breathe and subsequently suffocate? Why do they tuck and nip and smooth when the ultimate beauty isn't on the surface at all? And why do they not see this?

Life was filled with so many twists and turns, like the sides of a prism, giving off light; what seemed wrong before seemed almost right when viewed from a different angle.

From now on, I'm telling everyone I meet I'm in insurance. Or I'm a car dealer. Better yet—a Republican. That way, when they accuse me of doing the Devil's work, at least there will be some validity to their claims.

That was the thing about signs, they were open for interpretation. Meaning was in the eye of the beholder.