"It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition."

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Religious Quotes #Children Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.”
“Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.”
“I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.”
“I want to win championship. That's the think I enjoy most.”
“Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters.”
“Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.”

Source : David Rees (2012). “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants”, p.29, Melville House
“You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.”
“Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

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