"Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere."

-- Michel Houellebecq

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Should Quotes

“Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.”

Source : Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.7, Routledge
“I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.”
“When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive”

Source : "Austrian daredevil breaks sound barrier jumping from space". "7.30" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2012.
“I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.”

Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with Canon's Fujio Mitarai". Interview with Irene M. Kunii, www.bloomberg.com. February 11, 2002.
“I was able to notice in a very early stage, there were discrepancies between the people who are writing the songs and discrepancies about the self that I was writing about. I was feeling that there were all these different people, both writing the record and having the record being written about them, even though ostensibly it was me sitting down and documenting a series of life experiences. Part of that, when I recognized this unconscious thing I was doing, was about these spaces, about these gaps.”
“He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.”

Source : Chris Bohjalian (2012). “The Sandcastle Girls”, p.132, Simon and Schuster
“You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.”

Source : "Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning". Interview with Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. February 19, 2008.
“My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.”

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