"Be as pissed off as you want to be. Donâ€™t hold back because you think itâ€™s unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldnâ€™t be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us. (I know, Iâ€™m cheesy.) So the next time someone calls you emotional, or asks if youâ€™re PMSing, call them on their bullshit."

Source : Jessica Valenti (2009). “He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know”, p.69, Seal Press

Jessica Valenti

#Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes.”

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.298
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”
“I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.”
“With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 328), 1895.
“I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.”
“Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.”

Source : "Absolutism in central Europe" by Peter H. Wilson, (p. 54), 2000.
“Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.”
“Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.”

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