Subversives Book Quotes & Sayings

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking. — Stephanie Mills

People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process. — Julia Cameron

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones. — Jane Espenson

Mary, mother of Jesus, pays for her maternity by giving up her body, almost entirely: she foregoes both (hetero) sexual pleasure (Christ's birth is a virgin and "spiritual" birth) and physical prowess. She has no direct worldly power but, like her crucified son, is easily identified with by many people, especially women, as a powerless figure. Mary symbolizes power achieved through receptivity, compassion, and a uterus. (There's nothing intrinsically wrong with a consciously willed "receptivity" to the universe; on the contrary, it is highly desirable, and should certainly include "receptivity" to many things other than holy sperm and suffering.) — Phyllis Chesler

I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way. — Jim McKay

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things. — C.S. Lewis

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures. — Adam McKay

What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago. — Henry A. Kissinger

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus

For the first time all day I felt safe.
Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe. — Becca Fitzpatrick