"Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?"

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Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

Valerie Solanas

#Purpose Quotes #Care Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.”

Source : 'Emblems' (1635) 'To the Reader'
“When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.”
“I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.”
“What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.”
“What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.”
“I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.”
“"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his frequent calls for freedom became a clichÃ© because he did it so often. They didn't get it, but Reagan certainly did. He thought deeply about the relationship between God and human freedom and the nonrelationship between atheistic communism and that freedom.”
“We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.”

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