"Women of all ages in countries around the world are raped at all different times of day, in different circumstances, wearing all different kinds of clothing (including in countries where the majority of women wear completely covering clothing). The one thing they all have in common? They came into contact with a rapist."

-- Laura Bates

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“I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.”
“I told her they must all be sold out.”
“Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.”
“We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.”
“Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.”
“Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.”

Source : "Closing of the American Mind".
“The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.”

Source : Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press
“You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1966). “The Lost World”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

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