#hal

College feminists made fun of skyscrapers, saying they were phallic symbols. They said the same thing about space rockets, even though, if you stopped to think about it, rockets were shaped the way they were not because of phallocentrism but because of aerodynamics. Would a vagina-shaped Apollo 11 have made it to the moon? Evolution had created the penis. It was a useful structure for getting certain things done. And if it worked for the pistils of flowers as well as the inseminatory organs of Homo sapiens, whose fault was that but Biology's? But no--anything large or grand in design, any long novel, big sculpture, or towering building, became, in the opinion of the "women" Mitchell knew at college, manifestations of male insecurity about the size of their penises. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#penises #phallocentrism #marriage

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational #motivation #inspirational

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue. ↗

— Earl Butz

#i #needed #things

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning. ↗

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#comfort-zone #inspirational #life #risk #inspirational

He sighed heavily. "You pissed me off." Well, that was totally unexpected....sort of. "Hey, I said I was sorry about hitting Mitch with that sword. How was I supposed to know the thing would leave a welt?" she said defensively. "That's not what I'm talking about. That didn't bother me." "Is it because I kicked your ass at skee ball?" "No! And that game is rigged anyway so it doesn't count." "Riigghhht," she said, drawing out the word. She thought over the rest of the night and couldn't figure out what she'd done. "Okay, you're gonna have to help me out here because I'm drawing a blank." "I'm pissed because all those men hit on you and not once did you tell any of them to f*ck off because you had a boyfriend!" he yelled. Her face went expressionless. She blinked once and then again. Then she burst into uncontrollable laughter. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#jason #playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #men

When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#tone #voice #men

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available. ↗

— Roy Romer

#american #american dream #available #before #challenges

I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#inspirational

One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he gave me the Datsun and went out and bought a Lincoln. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#datsun #guns #phallic #men

When things are exceptionally hard, there is a reason why they’re hard; and it’s usually because they’re not meant to be and we’re not listening. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham SAVVY Ingredients for Success

#life-challenges #listening-to-inner-self #listening-to-your-heart #motivational-quotes #inspirational