Wild

“Probably the commonest form of non-criminal rape is rape by fraud - by phoney tenderness or false promises of an enduring relationship, for example.”
― Germaine Greer, The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“J'ai une voix calme, mieux encore j'ai une voix paisible. Je te parle avec de la paix dans ma bouche. Je te parle avec de la paix dans mes mots, dans mes phrases. Je te parle avec une voix qui a sept ans, neuf ans, vingt ans, mille ans. L'entends-tu?”
― Larry Tremblay, L'Orangeraie

“We all have a voice. Some a whisper, some a roar.

If you can roar, roar for others.

If you can only whisper, keep trying.
Every roar started small.”
― M.L. Shanahan

“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities — all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The role is easy; there is none easier, save only the role of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Book: Selections From the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt