#nit

Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#equality

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#clichés #dignity #equality #fiction #gender

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#insanity #experience

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#equity #femininity #feminism #history #past

What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible purpose of the engine, and between them man, equally alien from the being of Nature and the doing of the machine, the vile becoming! ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#equality

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that “unless I believe, I shall not understand. ↗

— Anslem of Canterbury

#inspirational #equality

You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they’ve figured out. ↗

— John Green

#intelligence #universe #equality

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174) ↗

— Robin R. Meyers

#equality

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself. ↗

— John Milton

#equality #freedom #god #liberty #religion

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away... ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#experience #opportunity #experience