Kara

“What did The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and all that have to do with our present enthusiasm for women’s rights? Not that much, really. Women just got lucky this time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The people we were destroying were no longer just people like Jonah: public figures who had committed actual transgressions. They were private individuals who really hadn’t done anything much wrong. Ordinary humans were being forced to learn damage control, like corporations that had committed PR disasters. It was very stressful.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“I look upon those who assure me they had a ’happy childhood’ as either pathological liars, or pariahs.”
― Harlan Ellison, Vic and Blood: Stories