"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Men Quotes #Doe Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.”
“I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again.”

Source : Emily Gould (2010). “And the Heart Says Whatever”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)”
“Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among the merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.”
“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.”
“I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.”
“Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.”

Source : William Lashner (2009). “Blood and Bone”, William Morrow
“My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.”

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