Catharine Dople > Catharine's Quotes

“Even though it's only a minority of men who are violent or predatory, I don't know if men realise that girls are trained our entire lives to minimise the danger from you - and blamed if we don't.”
― Sara Pascoe

“I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother spirit is invoked.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Braininess is attractive”
― Richard Dawkins

“So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“He robbed a bank in Wichita.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“My mama wore pajamas to the grocery store. She smashed a bunch of eggs on the grocery floor. One dozen, two dozen, four dozen, six. She dumped a bunch of jelly jars into the mix. Grape jelly, apricot, don’t forget cherry. Orange marmalade and wild strawberry. A man walked by and fell in the glop. He slid next door to the barber shop. His icky-sticky body got covered in hair. He tore a hole in his under—”
― Louis Sachar, The Wayside School 4-Book Collection: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School Is Falling Down, Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom