If every time men had sex, they risked death, physical disability, a life-altering interruption in their education or career, and the sudden lifelong responsibility for another human being, I think they'd expect a choice in the matter. Cher
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. Iris Murdoch
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. Calvin Coolidge
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King Jr.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. Margaret Atwood
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. Howard Mumford Jones
Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. Erich Fromm
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Jessamyn West
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Ted Chiang
I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is. Katherine Boo
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. Katherine Boo
