"I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race."

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Source : Elaine Morgan (1973). “The descent of woman”

Elaine Morgan

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“I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.”
“My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.”

Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.
“My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.”
“The point of all this is to be able to spend more time at the beach!”
“I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.”
“Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.”
“For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion.”
“I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for a while, I thought I'd found it with a girl from my office. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her. She would often call just to sigh at me for two hours on the phone, wanting me to applaud her depth of feeling. I cut if off, then missed her, wishing that I'd at least had the sense to take her naked photograph.”

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