"I think the better question is: How do we want sexual mores to shift, and what will that do for the American experience of both consensual and nonconsensual sex?"

-- Vanessa Grigoriadis

#Thinking Quotes

“Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.”

Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.76
“I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.”
“Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.”

Source : "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.
“The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace”
“It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.”
“I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.”

Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback
“The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.”
“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.”

Source : Teddy Wayne, Marjorie Celona, Jim Gavin, William Nicholson, Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop (2013). “Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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