Bartolomé de las Casas Quotes
Island of Hispaniola once so populous having a population that I estimated to be more than three million, has now a population of barely two hundred persons.
Bartolomé de las Casas
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
Judith Butler
Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
Melissa de la Cruz
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
Barbara Brown Taylor
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.
Judith Wright
We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
David Blanchflower
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
Sherman Alexie