quotes about Masochism

“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.296, Bantam

“With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.”

“Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.”

“I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.”

“Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.”

“It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.”

“I want to see the economy rebound.”

“Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon.”

“However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.297, Macmillan

“There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.”

Source : "Dr. Frank Jobe dies at age 88" by Mark Saxon, abcnews.go.com. March 07, 2014.