Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
Context: A woman has a body that is penetrated in intercourse: permeable, its corporeal solidness a lie. The discourse of male truth—literature, science, philosophy, pornography—calls that penetration violation. This it does with some consistency and some confidence. Violation is a synonym for intercourse. At the same time, the penetration is taken to be a use, not an abuse; a normal use; it is appropriate to enter her, to push into ("violate") the boundaries of her body. She is human, of course, but by a standard that does not include physical privacy.
Andrea Dworkin book Intercourse
This it does with some consistency and some confidence. Violation is a synonym for intercourse. At the same time, the penetration is taken to be a use, not an abuse; a normal use; it is appropriate to enter her, to push into ("violate") the boundaries of her body. She is human, of course, but by a standard that does not include physical privacy.
Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
“Google is not a synonym for research.”
Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol
Source: The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3) https://books.google.nl/books?id=s8l5ApOH2CwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22dan+brown%22+%22the+lost+symbol%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhmZ-Mia3MAhXLfRoKHXEnBN0Q6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=%22synonym%20for%20research%22&f=false, 2009, p. 98
“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“Free will is an illusion. It is synonymous with incomplete perception.”
Robert J. Sawyer book Flashforward
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 12 epigram (p. 123; quoting Walter Kubilius)
“In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.”
Kenichi Ohmae (1943) Japanese academic
Kenichi Ohmae. “The Myth and Reality of the Japanese Corporation,” Chief Executive (Summer 1981)
James Joyce book Dubliners
"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
“…people always said that parenting and worrying were synonymous…”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 193
2000s, The Choice (2007)
“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Two Boys Kissing
