Izona Quotes & Sayings

As Feministing commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article "Students of Virginity," on abstinence clubs at Ivy League colleges, "There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete's sake. — Jessica Valenti

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone De Beauvoir

A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it, — Meir Shalev

Was no such thing as a "dangerous weapon," there were only dangerous men. — Robert A. Heinlein

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. — Stephen King

Is it possible that, with each inhalation, we take in the world and awaken our soul? And with each exhalation, do we free ourselves of the world, which inevitably entangles us? Is this how we fill up and empty a hundred times a day, always seeking the gift of the two breaths? Perhaps this is the work of being. — Mark Nepo

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke. — George Burns

You're too young to be so old. — Leslea Tash

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell

It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life. — Jonathan Safran Foer