Amanda's favorite quotes

"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading

553 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy

6,133 people liked it

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
— Anne Sexton

26 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live

2,398 people liked it

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
— Anaïs Nin

256 people liked it

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
— Anaïs Nin

56 people liked it

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: inspirational

33 people liked it

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

19 people liked it

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
— Simone de Beauvoir

19 people liked it

"feminism is for everybody"
— bell hooks

tags: inspirational

22 people liked it

"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
— Khalil Gibran

27 people liked it

""Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
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— Kahlil Gibran

tags: kindness

37 people liked it

"Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation."
— Jeanette Winterson (Written on the Body)

25 people liked it

"After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, "I fuck therefore I am"."
— Jeanette Winterson (Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd)

tags: sexuality

25 people liked it

"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. "
— Erica Jong (How to Save Your Own Life)

tags: feminist, sex, women

9 people liked it

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
— Alice Walker

155 people liked it

"Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts."
— Nikki Giovanni

10 people liked it

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

894 people liked it

"However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice."
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

10 people liked it

"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
— Audre Lorde

tags: consciousness, feminist, lesbian, womanist

8 people liked it

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. "
— Elinor Smith

tags: determination, happiness, success

21 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time

1,716 people liked it

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