#ow

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. ↗

— Judith Butler

#harassment #i #i think #important #known

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#behaved #dance #each #hand #how

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#coming #daddy #grow #help #hurt

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#believing #chastity #christian #christian religion #deadly

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #death #die #i #my own

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#controversy #dispute #exact #gains #most

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#leap #like #look #reap #sow

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conduct #divinity #healing #his #influencing

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cannot #continually #ere #find #how

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#businesses #fighting #first #know #leave