#equal

Anyway, even if Archer was insane enough to have a thing for Sophie, after the All Hallow’s Eve Ball, he won’t even think about looking at another girl.” “Why?” “I’ve decided to give myself to him.” Oh, gross. Who says stuff like that? Why didn’t she just say “delicate flower” or “carnal treasure” or something equally stupid? ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#elodie #equality

Oh, I don’t buy lottery tickets... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also be equally capable of extremely bad luck, like getting struck by lightning, or falling out of window or something. I’d rather just not know. ↗

— Chrissi Sepe

#lottery-tickets #equality

Alan shook his head. Jeremy was hopeless. Either he’d find an equally soft-headed girl and they’d live happily ever after like two cooing doves, or he’d be eaten alive by some she-spider. ↗

— Bonnie Dee

#bonnie-dee #captive-bride #equality

If you are for Allah, I am for Al-Lat. And she doesn't believe your God when he recognizes her. Her opposition to him is implacable, irrevocable, engulfing. The war between us cannot end in truce. And what a truce! Yours is a patronizing, condescending lord. Al-Lat hasn't the slightest wish to be Allah's daughter. She is his equal, as I am yours. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#equality

[Mo] sapeva che a Caterina, Cecilia e Maria, quando avessero messo piede su Deneb, nessuno avrebbe chiesto di compilare un modulo sbarrando la F. e non la M. per relegarle di conseguenza in uno scompartimento di seconda categoria. ↗

— Bianca Pitzorno

#empowerment #equality #gender #independence #opportunities

There were large and small ones too. And some quite in-between. But all of equal nastiness. And smelliness and ghastliness. For they would eat a fellow up, as one might fish and chips ↗

— Robert Rankin

#equality

Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#obedience #percy-shelley #equality

Equality has no place for genius. ↗

— Allen Bloom

#genius #liberalism #equality

Not all vampires are created equal, you know. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#hybrid-vampires #luc #vampires #vampiric-equality #vampiric-logic

Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT! ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #physics #relativity #science #equality