Birthday: 06/13
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman
“Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did”
George Carlin
What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?"
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.
Richard continued, "What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself.
-Douglas Adams
you dont know what you have until its taken from you.
You dont know how important it is to have the right to vote, until you dont.
You dont know how important it is to be able to appear, showing hair, skin, legs, feet, hands, fingers, wrists, in public, like your male counter parts, until you CANT.
You dont know what it means to be a woman, and be able to speak your mind, (as your males counter parts do), until you cant.
You dont understand the significance of the freedom it takes to say: "I dont believe in such...", until you are imprisoned, tortured, raped and murdered for simple dissent.
You do not understand feminism, and what its done for you, until you need it to come back, and save your a**.
Fin.
-lavenderstain, via Jezebel
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