Emilia Feminist Quotes & Sayings

A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury. — Solomon

I've always said that you know you're a poet when you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and you type a colon and you hit the delete button, and you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and you type a colon and you hit the delete button. If you can do that for about three hours straight, trying to figure out which one is the best one, if you can do that for three hours and call that a good time, then you're probably a poet. — Jericho Brown

Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown? — G.S. Jennsen

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [ ... ] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with. — Tamora Pierce

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. — J.G. Ballard

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems. — Vernor Vinge

Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain, improvement in function and minimal risk of addiction. — Andrew Rosenblum

As science has become more abstract and remote from everyday experience, the role of metaphor in our descriptions of the world has become more central. The language that nature speaks, as Galileo long pointed out, is mathematics. The language that ordinary human beings speak, especially those of us who are not fluent in mathematics, is metaphor. Lightman ends his discussion with another metaphor: "We are blind men, imagining what we don't see." That is a good description of theoretical physics. — Freeman Dyson

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning. — Arthur Hailey

It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it. — Anthony Trollope

He who leaves the game wins it. — Nicolas Chamfort