As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply seemed like the best answer.
Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealt...
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
You have to stop doing, you know, human stuff,” I called. “It is seriously creepy coming from a wolf.
As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing.
I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.
I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.
Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.
Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Every precious human being born should have the right to live, love, and maximize his or her potential without suffering from discrimination.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
