Florina

“A man I briefly dated tried to win arguments with me by telling me I was blinded by ideology. I couldn’t see the world objectively, he said, or rationally, because I was a feminist and I saw everything through feminist eyes. When I pointed out that this was true for him too (he identified as a libertarian) he demurred. No. That was just objective, common sense – de Beauvoir’s ‘absolute truth’. For him, the way he saw the world was universal, while feminism – seeing the world from a female perspective – was niche. Ideological.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“although evolution may seem, in some vague sense, a ‘good thing’, especially since we are the product of it, nothing actually ‘wants’ to evolve. Evolution”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always
be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding”
― Stephen Hawking