“ (Ezekial saw the wheel (Way up in the middle of the air (O Ezekial saw the wheel (Way in the middle of the air! (Now the big wheel runs by faith (And the little wheel runs by the grace of God (The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional "act of faith")) but in the present. After all. (Courage is willful hope.) ”
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“ Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life. ”
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“ And middleclass women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal). ”
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“ Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. ”
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“ Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet: it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of time and right into Eternity, which is not theend of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, the old Eternal Now. ”
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“ Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. ”
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“ Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can't. ”
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“ Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can't. ”
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“ Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can't. ”
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“ Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet: it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of time and right into Eternity, which is not theend of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, the old Eternal Now. ”
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“ Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can't. ”
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