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Tag Name "Handmaidens" (11)

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So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
Michael Ondaatje
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And so it is with us we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.
R.L. LaFevers
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
Barber Conable
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The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.
Chris Christie
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Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
Ken Danby
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Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.
Linda Howard
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Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
Marianne Williamson
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Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death’s handmaidens.
R.L. LaFevers
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Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.
Frank Bruni
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Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
Kofi Annan