Quote du Jour: Something for Young Girls to Keep in Mind

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From Mary Robison's novel, Oh! sage advice from mother to daughter:

xxxMaureen said, "Always remember, Violet, that boys are incredibly stupid imbeciles who are liable to do anything to you at any time."
xxx"Why do they?" Violet said.
xxx"Because we girls' prettiness drives them crazy," Maureen said.
xxx"That's right," Lola said.
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Quote du Jour: My Imperative Moderated

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A quote from Flannery O'Conner and the Christ-Haunted South:

[Allen] Tate extols neither the gospel nor the church so much as the power of "classical-Christian culture." By uniting the virtues of the biblical and Greco-Roman traditions, this ideal hybrid civilization provided "for the highest development of man's potentialities as man. Man belonged to his village, valley, mountain, or seacoast; but wherever he was he was a Christian whose Hebraic discipline had tempered his tribal savagery and whose classical humanism had moderated the literal imperative of his Christianity to suicidal other-worldliness.

This challenges my inherent tendency toward gnostic dualism, insofar as that tendency is an expression of "suicidal other-worldliness." It's worthy of some thought...
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