Marcotte Quotes

#1. There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left. - Author: Johnny Cash

#2. I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players. - Author: Ted Lindsay

#3. Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it. - Author: Amanda Marcotte

#4. If you're already a front-end developer, well, pretend you're also wearing a pirate hat. - Author: Ethan Marcotte

#5. If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them. - Author: Amanda Marcotte

#6. The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous. - Author: Amanda Marcotte

#7. Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character. - Author: Henry Ford

#8. The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an artist would have to be more creative and more patient. - Author: Goapele

#9. Children and fools speak true. - Author: John Lyly

#10. I have a Siamese twin cat. It's got 2 heads and 18 lives. - Author: M.J. McGuire

#11. I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. - Author: Amanda Marcotte

#12. Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#13. I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in. - Author: Amanda Marcotte

#14. Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don't hold up well under scrutiny. - Author: Amanda Marcotte