#cal

All politics is local. ↗

— Thomas P. O'Neill

#politics

And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new--perhaps something better--into this world... We are each an Eve. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#feminism #religion #women #life

The Beatles were basically a vocal band. ↗

— Keith Richards

#basically #beatles #vocal #were

Calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#integrity #test

They're only trees. Only trees. Whose afraid of lonely trees? ↗

— Ruth Frances Long

#jack #jenny #poems #realm #trees

Yeah, I try to be really calm. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#i #really #try #yeah

I'm basically a homegrown American. ↗

— Junior Seau

#basically #homegrown #i

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#humor #quality #food

This isn't food." Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it. "This is...edible ornamentation. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#food

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief. ↗

— Joy Reidenberg

#science #science