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#1

“I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".”
― Hayao Miyazaki

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#2

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan

2099 likes

#3

“I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: housekeeping, humor, toilet-tissue

42 likes

#4

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
― Cheris Kramarae

tags: feminism, women

2602 likes

#5

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat

tags: alive, bittersweet, chocolate, happiness, heart, simplicity, torture

618 likes

#6

“The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.”
― Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

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#7

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43889 likes

#8

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18882 likes

#9

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

7527 likes

#10

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

tags: education

681 likes

#11

“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
― Mark Twain

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#12

“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

tags: absurdity, authority, life, rules, society

154 likes

#13

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women

12564 likes

#14

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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