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...painting of the aged mother, or a play called The Aged Mother, or an essay in a magazine. Swathed in the shapeless dress, the indefinite hairdo, she has become something to be noticed and attended, as if she were forever on the verge of vanishing lest one remind oneself to look in on Mother. (And how's your mother...
...receiving "so much love that I forget myself" perhaps for Greaves and Rader the ideal romantic relationship is one characterized by self-love and continuous concern only for oneself. This seems to me hardly the picture of a healthy relationship; on my view, love begins at the moment when the well-being of the other becomes an independent value. This is certainly a form of "forgetting" oneself, but in no way a vicious one. Only through this sort of "forgetfulness" is it possible to be conscious of others in the most profoundly empathetic way, and this deep connection is completely...
...might have a different view of "closeness" with men! Furthermore, the message "Give me so much love that I forget myself" is hardly a message which empowers women. Since violence against women is precisely an act of "forgetting," or negating, the existence of another to advocate the "forgetting" of oneself through love, at least in this context, is to point up a central feature of patriarchal culture: the required self effacement, we would like to stress, is systematically linked to the effacement of women in rape: both are results of a culture which condones the subjugation of women...
Flaherty, who said he did not have "the slightest idea" why this engagement was on his calendar, had a case of the pre-show jitters. "Does one ever look forward to making a fool of oneself?" he asked...
...conference that since the 16th century, Catholic thinkers have allowed withholding of life support in some cases. O'Rourke and others cite a 1957 speech in which Pope Pius XII said , that life-sustaining methods are morally required only when they "do not involve any grave burdens for oneself or another...