#ado

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#away #fade #guidelines #infancy #intelligence

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#meadows #pleases #sent #sheep #shepherds

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ↗

— Merry Browne

#elegance #honesty #needs

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#any #child #got #had #i

... but Charlie had seen love and prise flare in the brown eyes, burning away every trace of sadness and timidity. Rose Petch, she knew, would never abandon her child the way Charlie's mother had abandoned her. ... Charlie stood, trembling, torn nearly in two by jealousy and longing ... ↗

— Ellen Renner

#ellen-renner #jealousy

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#adore #any #being #goodbye #i

Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can should use this long-craved freedom to study and to let men see how greatly they wronged us when depriving us of its honor and advantages. And if any woman becomes so proficient as to be able to write down her thoughts, let her do so and not despise the honor, but rather flaunt it instead of fine clothes, necklaces, and rings. For these may be considered ours only by use, whereas the honor of being educated is ours entirely. ↗

— Louise Labé

#feminism #learn #power #troubador #education

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#am #analyze #i #i am #nor

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#adulthood #peter-pan-syndrome #age

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paradox #truth #wisdom #age