"Lead me not into temptation;
I can find the way myself."
- Rita Mae Brown
"Nothing is unnatural - just
untried"
- Rita Mae Brown
"You've got to learn to respect
what you don't understand."
- The Indigo Girls
"It is better to be hated for
what one is,
than to be loved for what one
is not."
- Andre Gide
"Wherever they burn books they
will also,
in the end, burn human beings."
- Heinrich Heine
"I distrust those people who
know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony
"Wouldn't it be great if you
could only get AIDS
from giving money to television
preachers?"
- Elayne Boosler
"The test of courage comes when
we are in the minority;
the test of tolerance comes
when we are in the majority."
- Ralph W. Stockman
"No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right."
- Isaac Asimov
"When you're in love you never
really know
whether your elation comes from
the qualities
of the one you love, or if it
attributes them to her;
whether the light which surrounds
her like a halo
comes from you, from her,
or from the meeting of your
sparks."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
"It's astonishing how much energy
some people
waste worrying that someone
else might be enjoying life
in ways that they don't approve
of."
- Kevin Michael Vail
"The best revenge is to be happier
than the fuck-wit
who tried to mess with you in
the first place.
And if at all possible, humiliate
them on national television."
- Sue-Ann Post
"When you get to the edge of
all you know,
you must believe one of two
things:
There will be ground for you
to stand on,
or you will be given wings to
fly."
- Anonymous
"To love oneself is the beginning
of a lifelong romance."
- Oscar Wilde
"Being HIV-positive, I
like to freak people out.
'AIDS, I hope I never get that
again!'.
I even have a bumper sticker
that says,
'Lose weight now, ask me how!.'"
- Steve Moore
"It is true I am only one.
But I am one and the fact that
I cannot do everything
will not prevent me from doing
all that I can do."
- Edmund Hale
"We women are the best thing
going-
we are warm, passionate, we
cry and we live!
Let's celebrate!"
- Margaret Sloan-Hunter
"If money really were the root
of all evil,
it sure would take the heat
off us chicks."
- Judith Lucy
"If women ran the world, would missiles be shaped differently?"
"Because I am a woman,
I must make unusual efforts
to succeed.
If I fail, no one will say,
'She doesn't have what it takes.'
They will say, 'Women don't
have what it takes'."
- Clare Boothe Luce
"When women act like women,
they are accused of being inferior.
When women act like human beings,
they are accused of behaving
like men."
- Simone de Beauvoir