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While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen


Kate Bornstein


#gender-reassignment-surgery #grs #transgender #transition #respect

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).


J.M. Coetzee


#disgrace #j-m-coetzee #africa

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual…O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.


Henry David Thoreau


#joyfulness #thanksgiving #wealth

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.


Mike Norton


#die #dig #digging #escape #evil

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!


Jared Diamond


#error #misguidedness #population #problems #environmentalism

— ¡Cielo Santo, eres un hombre-lobo! ¡Un pequeño hombre-lobo! —sé que dije. -- Johanna Miller


Melisa S. Ramonda


#johanna-miller #lobos #mirko-valinchenko #rasguños-en-la-puerta #relp

I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.


J.M. Coetzee


#disgrace #kick-a-cat #rape

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.


Steve Allen


#god #him #holy #must #phrase

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.


Stephen Ambrose


#disgrace #done #indians #live #managed

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.


Karen Armstrong


#death #devastating #disgraceful #dying #helpless






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