Eva Figes Quotes

#1. The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Eva Figes

#2. But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

Eva Figes

#3. It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Eva Figes

#4. Grievance does not make for great art.

Eva Figes

#5. Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

Eva Figes

#6. The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Imelda Marcos

#7. Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Eva Figes

#9. Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.

Robert Krulwich

#10. For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Eva Figes

#11. We are shaped by every endured situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I'm absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don't go, there'll be one more broken person in this world who gave up a dream to sit in a chair, pick up the TV remote and shrink.

Lexis De Rothschild

#13. People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

Moby

#14. What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Ashley Monroe

#15. Guy was saying, "What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?"
"Something in my body language?"
He groaned. "That was bad - even for you.

Josh Lanyon

#16. Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

#17. Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

Eva Figes

#18. So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind?

Clive Barker