#intro

Though I may be efficient at the family table, I linger at the table for two. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#family

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#admired #art #come #him #honesty

She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lesbian #life #reincarnation #life

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#introduction #preface #age

My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, that's how I get introduced. ↗

— Ben Nicholas

#game #get #had #how #i