"Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"The curriculum of the girl’s school should be vernacular, needlework and sanitation...teaching women amounted to the loss of nationality... English education had de-womanizing impact on women by denyi…"

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Social Activism1856–1920

#education

"Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her."

— Helen Rowland

Journalism1875–1950

#gender

"The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh …"

— John Passmore

Philosophy1914–2004

#truth

"This idea is confirmed in Scripture; it is distinctly stated that one sole thing, fear of God, is the object of the whole Law with its affirmative and negative precepts, its promises and its historica…"

— Maimonides

Religion1135–1204

#books