Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day. " -Liberty
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.
The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character. . . To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path. . . and somehow keep their heart.
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment. . . . Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.
The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.
The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.