"For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom."

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Source : Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.29, Modern Library

Katha Pollitt

#Humble Quotes #Pie Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Never despair. Never surrender.”
“I could never, ever have an abortion.”
“I think I've seen the first 'RoboCop' like 15 or 20 times. I'm like a kid that way.”

Source : "The New Robocop Talks" by Eric Goldman And Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. March 26, 2012.
“Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.”
“Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.”
“We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)”
“No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!”
“I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.”

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