Jillsons Farm Quotes & Sayings

When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from. — Lidia Yuknavitch

I'm trying to abandon the present, but I don't even have the skills to master the past. — Lindsey Leavitt

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real. — Edgar Mitchell

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Swept away with the idea, he said it felt like an awakening to him. More like a remembering, I think. The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on extinction - not just for Native peoples, but for everyone. Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion - until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma. — Charles F. Glassman

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete. — Sherry Turkle

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

To Whom It May Concern--
Only four words of advice: It can be done. — Kira Salak