"Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments."

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Source : "Time to Speak Out" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2002.

Wendy McElroy

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“The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...”

Source : Bell Hooks (1994). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.298, Routledge
“All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”
“Don't agonize, organize.”
“The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.”
“The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.”

Source : "How modern should theology be?".
“Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.”
“I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.”
“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.”

Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

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