Computer dating? It’s terrific if you’re a computer!
I don’t care whether they like me or not. Everybody’s stupid, that’s what I think. I care if I like me, that’s what I truly care about.
Because the real worship is not one man, one vote, it’s one man, one dollar. Commerce drives democracy, not vice versa.
He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.
Well?” He thought about it now. “I think a woman’s sphere can be taxing, and perhaps for you, as you indicate, boring. I would hate to think of you being bored! I – I am rather afraid I would bore you. I am not a wealthy or an educated man.” “But you are a brave one. You fought, and I suppose you will again.” Catherine stared intently into his eyes. “Captain Schuyler, if you would let me be me, you would never bore me. I truly do want to ride, dance, laugh, and.
You’ll see. You think you can do what boys do but you’re going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn’t matter about brains, brains don’t count. What counts is whether you’re a boy or a girl.
That’s the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What’s the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I’ll get the real thing not one of these chippies.
They’re walking around in clothing but they’re still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.
I hope there is a special hell for people who mistreat animals.
I’m queer. But why would people get so upset about something that feels so good? Me being a queer can’t hurt anyone, why should it be such a terrible thing? Makes no sense.
I think love is the wild card of existence. Don’t rule it out. Old as we are, it may still get thrown on the table.
April 23, 1813: “Political problems do not primarily concern truth or falsehood. They relate to good or evil. What in the result is likely to prove evil, is politically false; that which is productive or good, politically is true.
Life is a conversation between all living things.
You might say the first American Revolution was against the tyranny of King George. The second American Revolution must be against the tyranny of selfishness.” This.
I’m saying we have to have some communality. And we have to have discipline. That’s not the same as saying everyone has to look alike, act alike, think alike. Without community and discipline we’ll stay ineffective fragments or worse, we’ll be obliterated.” “I’m not a political person. All I want is to be left alone to do my work.” “You damn sight better become a political person. Things are so bad no one can afford to sit on the sidelines.
Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.
You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.
Every place has unsolved crimes because people don’t want to know.
Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A.
To work at what you love – a heaping up of joys.
This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it’s always an insult.