Random quote #3
Monday, October 13th, 2008For men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.
from Idylls of the King: Merlin and Vivien by Alfred Tennyson
Cheers, Alf.
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Random quote #2
Monday, September 22nd, 2008“Just because you can argue better doesn’t mean you are right.” Lianna in Lianna (1983) written by John Sayles
Random quote #1
Sunday, August 31st, 2008“I am just a lady with a simple lady mind.”
Sarah Haskins in Target Women:Birth Control
Not victim blaming
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008When one cabinet minister suggested a curfew on women to deal with an outbreak of assaults on women at night, Golda countered, “But it’s the men who are attacking the women. If there’s to be a curfew,” she decreed, “let the men stay at home.”
Burkett, E., 2008. Golda, New York, HarperCollins, p.247
“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”*
Sunday, May 20th, 2007I read several days ago about the murder of Du’a Khalil Aswad and the video that a man had taken of the event but I couldn’t bring myself to watch it. However, the mistake I then made was to push the matter away and do nothing. It took a post from Joss Whedon on Whedonesque to remind myself of it and do a small something about a world in which some men hate some women because they are women.
*Germaine Greer in The Female Eunuch in the chapter Loathing and Disgust (I suspect Du’a knew in the last hideous thirty minutes of her life).
ETA: this is great because it’s true. You could play feminist bingo with this.
Gamut
Sunday, May 28th, 2006That’s a good word.
I came across a Dorothy Parker quote I hadn’t seen before - “This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.” (does it date it if raisins are considered “fancy”?) - and I was reminded of a couple of my favourites:
Katharine Hepburn “ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.”
News Item:
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses
This is a great quote wrongly attributed to DP:
“If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.” - it was Maurice Baring (though it should be noted that even after consulting tried and trusted sources, it is difficult to locate original sources of quotes).
My favourite poem when I was young and miserable was Résumé:
Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live.