"'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives."

-- Christine Pelosi

#Men Quotes #Sexist Quotes #Gender Quotes

“Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.81, Penguin
“Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.”
“Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.”
“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”
“The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent”
“An author's characters do what he wants them to do.”
“I'm a big shoe guy, too. I have far too many pairs. Whenever there's a new style out, I'll text my stylist: 'Can we get a pair of those?'”
“I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses--and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.”

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