"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

“Well, I have chlamydia. Thanks for this, Mom. Good class.”

“I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

“Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.”

“When people get married, it enhances their relationship and puts strains on it.”

“As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.”

“Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?”

Source : "A Movement: The Daily Muse" by Kathryn Minshew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

“We work to become, not to acquire.”

“I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.”