"The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer."

-- Shulamith Firestone

#Sex Quotes #Culture Quotes #Division Quotes

“I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.”
“If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.”
“Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.”
“Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.”
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”
“I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.”
“Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.”

Source : "Losing Faith In The Zombie-Run Government". www.businessinsider.com. September 13, 2010.
“Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.182

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