Eilidh Harris

“In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.”
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz

“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“He was much changed and grown even thinner since Pyotr Ivanovich had last seen him, but, as is always the case with the dead, his face was handsomer and above all more dignified than than when he was alive.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories