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The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel,...
Sara Sheridan
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culture, stories, english, language, novel, storytelling, modern, screenplay, narrative, non fiction
Culture Definition
(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception an...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down...
Edward Abbey
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history, humanity, culture, vitality, civilization, distinction, clarity, inquisition, burnings, campo di fiori
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable con...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
In advanced societies it is not the race politicians or the "rights" leaders who create the new ideas and the new images of life and man. That role belongs to the artists and intellectuals of each gen...
Harold Cruse
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art, politics, society, activism, culture, artist, politicians, intellectuals, intellectualism, intellectual
Women with dark skin are sharing selfies on social media after decades of being underrepresented in the mainstream media. From what I have observed much of the dark skin adoration on social media appe...
Vanessa Ngoma
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life, love, self worth, culture, self, self love, self improvement, social media, social, african americans
Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.According to Appel, cult members develop...an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws,...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image