#lit

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. ↗

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. ↗

— Matthew Scully

#ethics #equality

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#bring #broader #contribute #experience #little

You should not try to live without thinking and feeling, for then you are only a piece of machinery, not a human being. Even if it hurts. Even if the thing you have to think of are sad, think them through; live them through and write or tell me. Only when we completely work through our thinking and feeling do we live a full life. ~From a letter to Diet Eman from Hein Sietsma ↗

— Diet Eman

#full-life #humanity #living-life #reality #sadness

I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity people like that -- the ones who try to lie to themselves -- because they suffer so much and don't face reality. ↗

— Diet Eman

#lying-to-ourselves #pity #reality #suffering #diet

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ↗

— William Faulkner

#perfectionism #personality #potential #self-improvement #dreams

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#down #little #man #never #see

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#dreams #excitement #imagination #inspirational #planning

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. ↗

— John Lennon

#dream #individuality #walruses #dreams

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. ↗