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"Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable."
"Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women."
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage."
"Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion."
"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."
"What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise."
"Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn."
"Awe and respect are two different things."
"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
"We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear."
"True nobility is exempt from fear."
"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do."
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
"Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them."
"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."
"If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more."
"Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance."
"We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life."
