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A Quote by Mary Rakow

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood. — © Mary Rakow

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Mary Rakow

Mary Rakow

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Mary Rakow

Mary Rakow
American - Novelist
Born: October 9, 1948

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande

Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.

Scott Simon

Scott Simon

In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel

I don't think you can underestimate how much carers need some support.

Phyllis Logan

Phyllis Logan

The kiss that you have never given is just as powerful as hours of actual lovemaking. The erotic isn't just what is happening between people's legs. It is also what's happening in their erotic mind.

Esther Perel

Esther Perel

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith

I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.

Madonna Ciccone

Madonna Ciccone

You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.

Esther McVey

Esther McVey

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

Patrick Swift

Patrick Swift

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who really understood value, how to take a company's financials apart and couple that with good judgment about businesses, macro trends, and where things are going.

David Bonderman

David Bonderman

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Doing this web show - people underestimate what it takes to do a web show successfully. They underestimate the amount of work that you have to do to get it to your audience after it's made. I think you have to work so much harder, especially if you don't have a huge budget. You have to know how to get your audience engaged, because the Internet is so distracting, and there are so many choices. People, even if they love your show, will forget to go back for episode four, because you know, people are busy.

Felicia Day

Felicia Day

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

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