two-ness

And I love it, I do – I sometimes stand with him in front of the mirror, turning just enough to see the contented look on his little face and the grip of his fists on my t-shirt and I thrill to our bondedness, our two-ness – but as I said, it hurts my arms.

Arms And The Mom | Her Bad Mother 2008

Rabbinic discourse on sex/gender refuses this narrative of one-ness fallen into two-ness, insisting on a two-ness of humanity in the flesh from the very beginning, from the conception by God, as it were.

Sex. 2009

One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

And I love it, I do - I sometimes stand with him in front of the mirror, turning just enough to see the contented look on his little face and the grip of his fists on my t-shirt and I thrill to our bondedness, our two-ness - but as I said, it hurts my arms.

Arms And The Mom 2008

And I love it, I do - I sometimes stand with him in front of the mirror, turning just enough to see the contented look on his little face and the grip of his fists on my t-shirt and I thrill to our bondedness, our two-ness - but as I said, it hurts my arms.

Archive 2008-06-15 2008

So, with two-ness being the theme, I've come up with a plethora of ever so clever ideas:

Marcy Blum: A Valentine's Day Party Built For Twos 2008

One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

I did work with her as best I could, and while she may have annoyed several people with her two-ness, the hardest part of the day was having the death-stares and rolling eyes turned on us.

Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: A reply to Elayne, some more stuff about kids in public places, and then I'm done for now. 2005

That is, why is the “opposite-gender-ness” of traditional marriage a constitutional violation, but not its “two-ness”?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Giving away the (Iowa) farm: 2007

Again in the case of abstract objects what is straight is analogous to what is snub-nosed; for it necessarily implies a continuum as its matter: its constitutive essence is different, if we may distinguish between straightness and what is straight: let us take it to be two-ness.

On the Soul 2002