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Book cover for Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
These responses, like the ones in the mainstream media, imply that Ovid’s poem deserves a place in university classrooms not for its content, but because it is old and canonical. It is this kind of thinking that makes ancient Greece and ...more
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Douglas Adams
“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Anaïs Nin
“The humiliations and defeats,
given with a primitive honesty,
end not in frustration, despair or futility,
but in hunger, an ecstatic devouring hunger—for more life.”
- Anais Nin”
Anaïs Nin

John Scalzi
“I expected the members of Earth’s leading society of villains to be smarter,” I said. “I don’t know why.” “They’re smarter in movies and books.” “They would have to be, wouldn’t they?” Morrison said. “In the real world, they can be what people like them usually are: a bunch of dudes born into money who used that money to take advantage of other people to make even more money. It works great until they start believing that being rich makes them smart, and then they get in trouble. Unless they find someone else to take advantage of.”
John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Madeline Miller
“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
Madeline Miller, Circe

Madeline Miller
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
Madeline Miller, Circe

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