“The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of...” — Marina Warner Quote

“The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.”

“A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.”

“One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.”

“I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.”

“If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.”

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“The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.'”

“Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.”

“If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?”

“You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.”

“انا لا ادين ارتداء الحجاب ولا ادين من تقرر ان ترتديه. ما ادينه هو اعتبار الحجاب ماركة مسجلة للايمان وبرهاناً على التقوى والصلاح وحسن الاخلاق”