#lib

Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you’re trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies. ↗

— Clive Barker

#zombies #love

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#hatred #love #love

Regalar un libro es fácil hasta que buscas uno para quien te ha robado el corazón. ↗

— Sofía Navarro

#books #corazón #heart #libro #love

Sometimes, Johannes would pop his head in the filing room and ask, "Need anything?" 'Yes. I would like you to ravage me here on the floor and swear your undying love to me.'"No. Thanks. I'm good. ↗

— Libba Bray

#the-eternal-kiss #the-thirteenth-step #love

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#gender #men #women #women-s-liberation #men

Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so that I was not awake. . . . When I opened my eyes they were still trying to find the papers. They did not understand how we organize the library, you see. They were angry and creating a bad mess. . . . The police were coming and the men decided they must leave. I shouted at them as they left: 'It is a free and public library! All you had to do was ask! ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#organization #public-library #reference #men

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. ↗

— Herbert Agar

#truth #men

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#ploy #women-s-liberation #men

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross. ↗

— H. Richard Niebuhr

#men