Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Kätzchen]

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way,” ― Charles Bukowski

[Kätzchen]

“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
― Pablo Neruda

[Tucker]

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

[gotoseagrl]

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. Hubert Humphrey

[Kobi]

Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist whose early activism including working against the Vietnam War, became a strong voice for the position that pornography is a tool by which men control, objectify, and subjugate women. With Catherine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin helped draft a Minnesota ordinance that did not outlaw pornography but allowed victims of rape and other sexual crimes to sue pornographers for damage, under the logic that the culture created by pornography supported sexual violence against women.

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• Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.

• We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent -- see, he's jealous, he cares -- a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure.

• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

[Tony]

"There, but for the grace of God, go I".

This is something I find myself repeating more than once a day. If I find myself judging someone's situation, their lack of prevention that put them there;
If I see someone in a really bad place.

I believe that we all have the responsibly to take care of our brothers, sisters & strangers. The better place we're in, the more we should do. Be grateful we have what we have & help those with less than.

When we're in a really bad place, remember, someone always has it worse.

"There, but for the grace of God go I".

[Katniss]

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it's your eyes that close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Katniss

[Spirit Dancer]

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing
to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind
that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Galen Starr Ross

[spritzerJ]

Originally Posted by Spirit Dancer

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing
to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind
that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Galen Starr Ross

Putting this on my "I carry you everywhere binder at work". Thank you!

[Tucker]

“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.”
― David Rakoff, Half Empty

[Janstevie]

A repair shop:

WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)

[DMW]

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”


― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

[DMW]

“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

[DMW]

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
Ada Velez-Boardley

[Kobi]

Sojourner Truth was born a slave, and became a popular spokeperson for abolition, women's rights, and temperance. Her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech is known in several variants, because Sojourner Truth herself did not write it down.
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• There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. -- Equal Rights Convention, New York, 1867

• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

• Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

• Religion without humanity is poor human stuff.

[spritzerJ]

my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to be
and if your causin' no harm
then you're alright with me

burn one down... Ben Harper

[Electrocell]

Kindness is a language we all can speak.

Even the deaf can hear it and the blind

can see it. (Mother Teresa)

[FeminineAllure]

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson.

[FeminineAllure]

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
-- Emory Austin


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
-- Chinese Proverbs

What happens to a person is less significant than what happens within him.
-- Louis L. Mann

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness and fears.
-- Glenn Clark

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
Jack Buck

[sara-bera]

“You can do anything, but not everything.” -David Allen