#pro

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.] ↗

— Joss Whedon

#female-characters #feminism #humanism #humanist #joss-whedon

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'. ↗

— Donald Thomas

#history #thought-provoking #dating

คนยากจนต้องต่อสู้อย่างหนักเพื่อความเป็นอยู่อันจำเป็น คนมั่งมีต่อสู้เพื่อการสะสม แล้วในที่สุดไปจากโลกนี้ คนทั้งสองประเภทก็ไปโดยทำนองเดียวกัน คือไปด้วยมือเปล่าแท้ๆ การสะสมทรัพย์สมบัติไว้จนไม่มีทางจะใช้นั้น เขาทำเพื่ออะไรกัน...เมื่อที่สุดมนุษย์เรา จะต้องเหมือนกันเช่นนี้ทั้งหมด? ↗

— ศรีบูรพา (กุหลาบ สายประดิษฐ์)

#justice #property #equality

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience. ↗

— Eric Mann

#progressivism #responsibility #experience

I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#productivity #time #experience

The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality. ↗

— Ray Rhamey

#experience

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations. ↗

— Jessica Park

#thought-provoking #true-to-life #humor

This life is not given to us as a pastime. There was a solemn purpose in our creation, in the life that God has given to us. Let us study what that purpose is, that we may progress and obtain eternal life. ↗

— George Albert Smith

#progression #life

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#future #present #progress #faith

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#buddhism #dalai-lama #inspiration #problems #faith