#lei

It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia] ↗

— Simon Pegg

#pastries #princess-leia #star-wars #love

To be loved means to be recognized as existing. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#love

And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#jeffrey-eugenides #madeleine-hanna #marriage-plot #marriage

Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds that the dorms and classrooms can't accommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. There is also the suggestion that she is not good marriage material for the men at the elite college to which Smithcliff is a bride-supplying "sister school." The letter inquires as to why she hasn't been institutionalized. When she goes to the administration building to protest the decision, she can't get up the flight of marble steps on the Greek Revival building. This edifice was designed to evoke a connection to the Classical world, which practiced infanticide of disabled newborns. ↗

— Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

#accessibility #disability #education #humor #oppression

It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#science #men

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#galileo-galilei #men

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

for at blive accepteret, for at blive holdt af, for at opnå anerkendelse, lod jeg mig selv blive ham den onde. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#sleiman #men

Jeg følte mig fordømt og fortabt på forhånd, og jeg blev ond overfor psykologen. Jeg følte ikke, at det var konstruktivt. Hun skulle bare fortælle mig, hvor langt ude jeg var, og hvor forkert det var, alt det, jeg lavede. Hun kom med sådan nogle mærkelige psykologbilleder med farver, som man skulle fortolke. Hvad er det? Hvad ser du her? Hvad betyder det her? Det var, som om hun var ude på at gøre mig dummere. jeg blev stiktosset, for jeg var meget bevidst om, hvilken lortesituation jeg og mor og mine søskende var i. Den psykolog var den sidste, der skulle gøre mig dummere eller mindre værdig, end verden havde gjort mig, så midt i det hele hamrede jeg mine hænder ned i bordet og råbte: 'Nu stopper det.' Psykologen tabte besindelsen. 'Du bliver morder ligesom din far,' råbte hun. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#mindreværd #psykolog #sleiman #men

Uden gruppen har du ingen status, for alle andre i verden er imod dig. Jeg kan ikke give mine brødre rigdom, jeg kan ikke give dem guld, men jeg kan give dem mit ord, og hvis mit ord ikke længere tæller, så er jeg intet. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#loyalitet #sleiman #men