Michaela

“Little girls ought to be taught and brought up with boys, so that they might be always together. A woman ought to be trained so that she may be able, like a man, to recognise when she's wrong, or she always thinks she's in the right. Instil into a little girl from her cradle that a man is not first of all a cavalier or a possible lover, but her neighbour, her equal in everything. Train her to think logically, to generalise, and do not assure her that her brain weighs less than a man's and that therefore she can be indifferent to the sciences, to the arts, to the tasks of culture in general. The apprentice to the shoemaker or the house painter has a brain of smaller size than the grown-up man too, yet he works, suffers, takes his part in the general struggle for existence. We must give up our attitude to the physiological aspect, too -- to pregnancy and childbirth, seeing that in the first place women don't have babies every month; secondly, not all women have babies; and, thirdly, a normal countrywoman works in the fields up to the day of her confinement and it does her no harm. Then there ought to be absolute equality in everyday life. If a man gives a lady his chair or picks up the handkerchief she has dropped, let her repay him in the same way. I have no objection if a girl of good family helps me to put on my coat or hands me a glass of water --”
― Anton Chekhov

“Нещастието не съединява, а разединява хората и дори там, където изглежда, че те би трябвало да бъдат свързани от еднородната скръб, стават много повече несправедливи и жестоки, отколкото в среда сравнително доволна.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Съобщение на обществото за защита на животните

В резултат на продължителни борби на нашето Председателство най-после е завършен и влезе в експлоатация новият цех „Отваряне на кутии“ във фабрика „Заешка яхния и рибена чорба“.
В него се отварят току-що запечатаните консервни кутии и от извадените заешки мръвки, съответно от рибените парчета се възстановява изцяло животинчето или рибата, които след закарването им по местонахождение се пускат на свобода.
Благодарим на дирекцията на фабриката, която след толкова шикалкавене и спорове най-сетне правилно разбра хуманизма!”
― István Örkény, Последният влак

“The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and indeed open them wide, they see nothing, or see everything in a false light, as though through coloured spectacles.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Diary of a Superfluous Man