"I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Oppression Quotes #Revulsion Quotes #Visceral Quotes

“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.”

Source : "Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature". Book by Francis Crick, 1981.
“I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.”
“Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.”
“A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.”
“When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. Shakespeare said the course of true love never did run smooth, and I had this sense that it had to be painful. It was such a revelation [...] to realize that it shouldn't be that way and that you get to choose who you love and who you decide to give your heart to.”

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