"But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be."

-- Agnes Smedley

#Matter Quotes #May Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.”
“If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?”
“Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.”
“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”
“Think of everyday life as karate training.”
“My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.”
“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.”
“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds... But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.”

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