Cheryl Brennan

“Why should they be afraid of us? We aren’t hurting them,’ she broke in.

“I’m not sure that I know why,’ I told her. ‘But they are. It’s a feel-thing not a think-thing. And the more stupid they are, the more like everyone else they think everyone ought to be. And once they get afraid they become cruel and want to hurt people who are different – ”
― John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.”
― Novalis, Philosophical Writings

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand