Troy Campbell

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for a while after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The overly health-conscious among us have tried to rain on the bacon parade by promoting low fat (and low flavor) options, such as turkey bacon. Turkey bacon. It’s like saying “shoot” instead of “shit.” It just doesn’t quite carry the moment.”
― George Takei, Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything

“Compared with the male benchmark, women are represented as more community minded and pacifist. When political women discuss why women are needed in politics in discourses that support the assumption that women are active primarily in these spheres, they contribute to the normalisation of dominant discourses of femininity. If women bring a 'women's perspective' to politics, what do men bring? This is a question that is rarely posed. Men are the norm, and women are the 'other'. Men do not need to justify their presence : it is taken for granted.”
― Emma Dalton, Women and Politics in Contemporary Japan