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#1

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth

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#2

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: death, inspirational, voice

3778 likes

#3

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: death

1799 likes

#4

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

tags: death, hope, immortality, life, memory, remembrance

1727 likes

#5

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: death

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#6

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

tags: life-lessons

2475 likes

#7

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth, women

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#8

“When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: compassion, help, judgement, religious

235 likes

#9

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

1839 likes

#10

“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”
― Albert Einstein

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#11

“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

tags: art, religion, secularism

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#12

“The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging our marriages and our human rights and we are starting to receive the rights we were always entitled too. Therefore, no one is "giving" or "allowing" us anything. We are simply and powerfully starting to reclaim what has always been ours. The moralistic patriarchy has made this a long and bloody battle, but the concept has always been simple and I am glad it is finally sinking in. We are here, we have always been here, we are not going anywhere, and trying to suppress us under false puritanical mores is not smart and will not make us go away. It's not just about the LGBTQ communities but all suppressed minorities. If you listen closely you can here the subtle but real shifting of the winds to a more enlightened and egalitarian society. It won't happen without work, and it won't happen without intelligence. Never stop learning, never stop growing, never be ashamed because you are different, and never stop knowing that there is power in community.”
― Cristina Marrero

tags: american-civil-liberties, american-equal-rights, equal-rights, gay, human-rights, lgbt, marriage-equality, minorities, patriarchy, same-sex-marriage

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#13

“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent languages.

"I hate you," she said to me one afternoon. Her English was flawless. "I really, really hate you." Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help taking it personally.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: english, french, humor, languages

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#14

“God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.'

Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.

'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!'

'John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve.

Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb.

'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

tags: god, ireland

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#15

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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#16

“The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the limp prick. The banner of the enemy's encampment: the prick at half-mast. The symbol of the apocalypse: the atomic warhead prick which self-destructs. That was the basic inequity which could never be righted: not that the male had a wonderful added attraction called a penis, but that the female had a wonderful all-weather cunt. Neither storm nor sleet nor dark of night could faze it. It was always there, always ready. Quite terrifying, when you think about it. No wonder men hated women. No wonder they invented the myth of female inadequacy.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

tags: feminism, humor, men, sexism, women

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#17

“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.”
― bell hooks

tags: activism, feminism, justice, liberals, men, sexism, women

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#18

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl.”
― Shirley Chisholm

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#19

“The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or pregnant by some triumph of technology or perpetrators or victims of some hideous crime or any combiniation of the above. Women's issues are often disguised as people issues, unless they are relegated to the women's pages which amazingly still suvive. Senior figures are all male; even the few women who are deemed worthy of obituaries are shown in images from their youth, as if the last fourty years of their lives have been without achievement of any kind. If you analyse the by-lines in your morning paper, you will see that the senior editorial staff are all older men, supported by a rabble of junior females, the infinitely replacesable 'hackettes'.”
― Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman

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#20

“Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.”
― bell hooks, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

tags: girls, race, sexism

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#21

“People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: 2008, barack-obama, bigotry, gender, hillary-clinton, identity-politics, race, racism, sexism, skin-colour, tribalism, united-states-elections-2008

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#22

“If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?”
― Clare Luce Booth

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#23

“You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: lord-of-the-rings, sexism, tolkien

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#24

“Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.”
― Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

tags: guns, murder, sexism, violence

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#25

“There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry training, the stupidity training, the placation training. How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition? I failed miserably and thought it was my own fault. You can't unite woman and human any more than you can unite matter and anti-matter; they are designed to not to be stable together and they make just as big an explosion inside the head of the unfortunate girl who believes in both.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

tags: feminism, sexism, women

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#26

“... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.”
― Judith Lewis Herman

tags: abuse-of-power, abused-women, coercion, coercive-acts, crime, criminal, dominance, feminist, feminist-theory, inequality, law, male-dominance, male-domination, male-thinking, patriarchy, power, rape, rape-convictions, rape-culture, rape-survivor, raped, sexism, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, violation

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#27

“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.”
― Ryan Lilly

tags: art, artist, artists, box, business, business-incubation, business-incubator, business-quote, business-quotes, creation, creative, creative-process, creatives, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, evaluating, incubation, incubator, judging, judging-others, judging-people, management, rules, structure, thinking-outside-of-the-box, thinking-outside-the-box

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#28

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that did not give her reason to judge them”
― Patricia Strefling, Edwina

tags: judging, trust

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#29

“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: women-s-strength

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#30

“Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape?
Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice”
― Dennis R. Miller

tags: rape, rape-culture, women-s-rights, women-s-strength

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