Manistan Quotes & Sayings

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Women in the online gaming community have been harassed, threatened, and driven out. Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist media critic who documented such incidents, received support for her work, but also, in the words of a journalist, 'another wave of really aggressive, you know, violent personal threats, her accounts attempted to be hacked. And one man in Ontario took the step of making an online video game where you could punch Anita's image on the screen. And if you punched it multiple times, bruises and cuts would appear on her image.' The difference between these online gamers and the Taliban men who, last October, tried to murder fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai for speaking out about the right of Pakistani women to education is one of degree. Both are trying to silence and punish women for claiming voice, power, and the right to participate. Welcome to Manistan. — Rebecca Solnit

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time. — Janet Morris

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist. — Norman Mailer

You can boil them, too," I contributed. "Or mash them with milk. Or fry them. Or chop them up and put them in a soup. A very versatile vegetable, the potato. — Diana Galbadone

In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers. — Karl Albrecht