#on

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. ↗

— Kate Millett

#identity #longer #mute #responsibility #say

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. ↗

— Kate Millett

#better #conditioning #could #discriminated #found

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. ↗

— Kate Millett

#declared #divorce #each #equal #everybody

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. ↗

— Kate Millett

#beyond #bring #call #change #essence

I continued to protect him with my silence. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#him #i #protect #silence

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? ↗

— Kate Millett

#children #fight #freedom #having #just

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#ask #chance #happy #i #make

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#buy #does #form #happiness #misery

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. ↗

— Robert Millikan

#educated #idea #minutes #more #person