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“A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.”
― Rachel Sontag, House Rules -
domestic duties
"I'm frustrated because I am handling most of the housework ( Read more... ) -
QOTD
"I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist ( Read more... ) -
QOTD
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
QOTD
"I don't write songs. I just make 'em up." -- Janis Joplin -
qotd
"No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right." Bertrand Russell -
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"Penny Montgomery-Schlanser says she was recently asked to leave a women's only gym in Houston because she breastfed her baby in the daycare area. The owner claims that she only asked Montgomery-Schlanser to move to a different area because there were other children, including an 11-year-old boy in the "Kids Club" at the time. We definitely don't ( Read more... ) -
meaning
"You don't have to know the meaning of life to know that life has meaning."
-- Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance -
quote of the day
"Nobody deserves to be treated as anything less than human, ever, though some people should experience their humanity from behind bars."
-- comment on "Seven Points on 'Rape Prevention'" -
QOTD
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
-- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance