"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive."

Oakley, Ann on mothers   

"The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values. Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one."

Oakley, Ann on myth
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"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."

Earhart, Amelia on women
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"Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you."

Peale, Norman Vincent on resentment
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"The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin."

Wilde, Oscar on purity   

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Angelou, Maya on anger
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

Angelou, Maya on jokes and jokers
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?"

Astell, Mary on women
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"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."

Astor, Lady Nancy on women
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"The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on strength
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"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."

Hare, David on strength   

"How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read."

Unknown, Source on insanity
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"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on evolution
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"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on evolution   

"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show."

McLaughlin, Mignon on strength   

"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on spirituality
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"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."

Byron, Lord on society
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"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."

Bronte, Emily on society   

"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will."

Artaud, Antonin on suicide
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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on suicide   

"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."

Szasz, Thomas on suicide
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"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."

Frankl, Viktor E. on purpose
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"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."

Brown, Les on commitment   

"How much we like ourselves governs our performance."

Tracy, Brian on performance   

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Bacon, Francis on beauty
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"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

Bejar, Hada on beauty
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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of on beauty
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"The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on beauty
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on beauty
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

Aurelius, Marcus on environment
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Aurelius, Marcus on harmony
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