It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else
Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.
The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.
It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.
You look like shit." Honesty is important in any relationship.
It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.
And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to laugh in the face of misery, I rest my mind from the stress of it al...
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.
... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.
One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
...reality is always plural and mutable.
But people are not butterflies, right. People are, well, more important than butterflies. We have opposable thumbs, hello. You can't possibly compare the sanctity of a human's life with that of a butterfly. In our culture you can and, indeed, must qu...
God, you’re sexy when you talk Psy.
If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.
The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experime...
