No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978
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It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbTechnology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCThe sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874