While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.
The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail.
Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.
Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.
Only for practical reasons. To find out if I said something stupid in an interview. So I can limit the damage.
The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.
. . . Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.
When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.
It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.