"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

“The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it also serves to impart a tone of frivolousness and lack of seriousness to ambitious, intellectual, and competitive striving that women may pursue.”
“Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.”

Source : "POLITICO Interview: Gov. Bredesen". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.
“'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.”

Source : "Sarah Palin: A Sleight of Gender?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2008.
“I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.”
“I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.”
“It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.”
“Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.”
“Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.”

Source : Alexander Berkman, Jewish Anarchist Federation (1929). “Now and after: the A B C of communist anarchism”

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