"I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them."

-- Gloria Steinem

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #People Quotes

“You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.”
“I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.”
“Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race...”
“How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.”
“I'm male gigolo. Professionally? I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.”
“One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.”
“This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth...”
“Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?”

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