Renee

“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918

“[Home Economics Textbook from 1950]: "Make [your husband] comfortable. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in low, soft, soothing tones, allowing him to relax and unwind."

Mama Celia: "Place a pillow over his head and hold it there until he promises to do at least one household chore a month.”
― Celia Rivenbark, Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments

“Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.”
― Edward Said

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
― Dimitri Merejkowski, Romance of Leonard da Vinci