Stephanie Smith

“I dislike the phrase “Internet friends,” because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.”
― John Green

“This book explains how it became fashionable to pathologize the behavior of millions of healthy male children. We have turned against boys and forgotten a simple truth: the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal males are responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys’ aggressive tendencies must be mitigated and channeled toward constructive ends. Boys need (and crave) discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. But being a boy is not a social disease.”
― Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

“Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?”
― Chris Sardegna

“The Earth created magic to protect the magic that is the Earth.”
― Sarah Warden