Quotes of: White-women Keyword

The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the state in this system as the appropriate objects of male penetration with no consideration for their personhood or plea...

Sheila Jeffreys

Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without...

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and ...

The Forest House

Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning ...

A Great and Terrible Beauty

When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about that? Wow, what fun!” Yes, it was fun, but it was also serious history. Pretty women do not fit into wh...

The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon

I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even mor...

The Magus

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women...

Man and Superman

They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping ...

Susan Hill

Like most guys, I had bought into the stereotype that all feminists were white, lesbian, unattractive male bashers who hated all men. But after reading the work of these black feminists, I realized that this was far from the truth. After digging into...

Byron Hurt

Linnie. And this Winnie.” They wore identical smiles, their bright black eyes sparked with curiosity. “Are you the doctor?” “No, I’m just volunteering.” “I knowed that, too.” Winnie gave her an exaggerated shake of the head. “Girls ...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread

[White approaches Loew in the bathroom, after he refused to answer Exley's questions] Ellis Loew: Unless you came in here to wipe my ass, I believe we're through. [White looks at him, silently] Ellis Loew: Come on, don't try this "Good Cop-Bad Cop" c...

L.A. Confidential

THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE I Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more like a snowy air, Reflecting snow. A newly-fallen snow At the end of winter when afternoons return. Pink and white carnations - one desi...

Wallace Stevens

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

Girls in White Dresses

The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.

Half Brother

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

The Ballad of the White Horse

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

Black Skin, White Masks

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

Black Skin, White Masks

Yo Mama’s so old, her memory is in black and white.

155 World's Funniest YO MAMA Jokes

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Stories give color to black and white information.

Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose

As tears fall from her face she begins to sway Love shouldn't hurt this way.

Snow White Darkness