#equal

A dingy emblem on the door depicted a little boy peeing into a pot. The rest of the bar was equally drab and tasteless. Dim bulbs behind red-tasseled lamp shades barely illuminated each of a dozen maroon vinyl booths, which marched along one wall toward the murky front windows. Chipped Formica tables anchored the booths in place. Opposite the row of booths was a long, scarred wooden bar with uncomfortable-looking stools. Behind the bar, sitting on glass shelves in front of a cloudy mirror, were endless rows of bottles, each looking as forlorn as the folks for whom they waited. He caught the strong odors of liquor and tobacco smoke, and the weaker scents of cleaning chemicals and vomit. In one of the booths , two heads bobbed with the movement of mug-clenching fists. A scrawny bartender with droopy eyelids picked his teeth with a swizzle stick and chatted quietly with a woman seated at the bar. Otherwise the bar was empty. ↗

— Robert Liparulo

#equality

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. ↗

— Jane Austen

#equality

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#equality

...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#equality

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#empowerment #equality #freedom #gender #independence

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#anxious #desire #disposition #equally #harm

I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger) ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#jack-travis #male #manly #sex #sexy

Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#equality

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#love #romance #equality

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#equality