Bethany > Bethany 's Quotes

“Imagining the worst has always been a great comfort to me. If there is turbulence there is an imminent crash. If she doesn’t pick up the phone, she is fucking someone. If there is a lump it is a tumor. By thinking like this I protect myself from disappointment. And if anything other than the worst-case scenario unfolds, what a pleasant surprise!”
― Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

“There is nothing novel or comedic or righteous about men using the threat of sexual violence to control noncompliant women. This is how society has always functioned. Stay indoors, women. Stay safe. Stay quiet. Stay in the kitchen. Stay pregnant. Stay out of the world. If you want to talk about silencing, censorship, placing limits and consequences on speech, this is what it looks like. She”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“We do not know alone. Dracula”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” What”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“I am confident that someday in the future The Rock, who was once a professional wrestler, will run for president of the United States, and I think that he will win. I have seen with my own eyes the power of The Rock. The Rock is a uniter, not a divider.”
― Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black

“What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love

“Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry.”
― Lyz Lenz, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture