Matt

“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”
― Michel de Montaigne

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“And yet, women keep trying. They put off the rent or the utilities to scrape together the $500 for a first-trimester abortion. They drive across whole states to get to a clinic and sleep in their cars because they can’t afford a motel. They do not do this because they are careless sluts or because they hate babies or because they fail to see clearly what their alternatives are. They see the alternatives all too clearly. We live, as Ellen Willis wrote, in a society that is “actively hostile to women’s ambitions for a better life. Under these conditions the unwillingly pregnant woman faces a terrifying loss of control over her fate.” Abortion, wrote Willis, is an act of self-defense.5”
― Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

“Much has been written and sung of the things we do for love and friendship. Not as much about the mistakes we make trying to banish lonliness.”
― Jimmy A. Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish