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Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement. ~Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987



Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~Author Unknown



I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White



I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973



For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. ~I Timothy 5:18



If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess



Ye cannot serve God and mammon. ~Matthew 6:24



Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson



There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. ~Philip G. Hamerton



The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. ~Martin H. Fischer



Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~Mark Twain



It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith



There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment



If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic. ~Author Unknown



And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? ~Galileo Galilei



Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."



Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb