I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.
– Gloria E Anzalda
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- I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep – Gloria E Anzalda
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- Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. – Gregory Woods
- When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them. – John Berryman
- You are sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves. – Anonymous
- The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume. – Andrea Zuvich
- A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. – Haruki Murakami
- Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be. – Jessica Kissner
- Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome. – Donald A Norman
- The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. – Barbara Marciniak
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- The anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story. – Melissa Broder
- Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. – bell hooks
- You’re sexist. I’m so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. – Gillian Flynn
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- It’s just sexual tension. Hardcore, animalistic, lick his body all over, sexual tension. – Norah – Angela Richardson
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- My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol. – Jerzy Pilch
- Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A fool’s mind is at the mercy of his tongue, and a wise man’s tongue is under the control of his mind. – NAME
- A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. – John R Dallas Jr
- And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them. – Rose Tremain
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- Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice. – Gloria Steinem
- Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius. – Gloria Burgess
- Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. – Marcel Marceau
- Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence — silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones – Vinay Kumar
- Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence. – MA George
- First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak. – Henri JM Nouwen
- I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed. – Anne Spollen
- To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears. – Nikki Rowe
- I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming. – Human Angels
- Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent. – Elizabeth Cary