#wasp

God, he loved being a bloke. He loved it so much. He wouldn't be a woman for all the money in the world. ↗

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. ↗

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#irishmen #italians #multiculturalism #native-americans #paternalism

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored. ↗

— James Ellroy

#because #going #high #high school #i

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding. ↗

— Jo Brand

#been #brothers #chased #donkeys #falling

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#attack #ever #furious #importunate #kill

I'm half Jewish half WASP. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #jewish #wasp

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#come #elsewhere #first #heritage #laying

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#brought #crutches #death #east #east side

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