Lojban Particles Quotes & Sayings

But no one wants to listen to our sad stories unless they are smoothed over with a joke or nice melody. And even then, not always. No one wants to hear a woman talking or writing about pain in a way that suggests that it doesn't end. Without a pat solution, silver lining, or happy ending we're just complainers -- downers who don't realize how good we actually have it.

Men's pain and existential angst are the stuff of myth and legends and narratives that shape everything we do, but women's pain is a backdrop- a plot development to push the story along for the real protagonists. Disrupting that story means we're needy or shellfish, or worst of all, man-haters - as if after all men have done to women over the ages the mere act of not liking them for it is most offensive. — Jessica Valenti

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. — Mickey Rooney

Time travel is such a magic concept. — Matt Smith

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races. — Toni Morrison

For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is. — Catherine Yass

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material — Sri Aurobindo

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips. — Nicholas Hoult