Body Alterations Quotes

#1. For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

Herman Kahn

#2. When we start polling people, it's often because we don't trust our own knowing. It feels too shaky and too uncertain.

Brene Brown

#3. A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#4. Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#5. There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

Anchee Min

#6. I think we all have archipelagoes in our minds.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. I only know there's something unsettling about a door that closes forever. I feel a vague lament about the changing of my body, the alterations in my appearance, the bleeding out of motherhood, the fear that I will not find the mysterious green fuse again.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Emily Mortimer

#9. The human spirit is courage incarnate, overcoming the impossible.

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#10. Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

Antonio Damasio