"Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?"

-- Carrie Jones

#Names Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.”
“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.”

Source : Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.179, Cambridge University Press
“Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.”
“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.”

Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”
“If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?”
“I am changing the notion that actresses canâ€™t have happy marriages”
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?”
“There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.”

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