Naomi Weisstein Quotes

#1. However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

Ruben Hinojosa

#2. You see?" said Laurent. "He has forgiven me for the small matter of the whip. I have forgiven him for the small matter of killing my brother. All hail the alliance.

C.S. Pacat

#3. Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Naomi Weisstein

#4. You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

Richard Foreman

#5. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (Ellen Ripley)

Alan Dean Foster

#6. Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor
when we are always laughing? ... and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.

Naomi Weisstein

#7. It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

Naomi Weisstein

#8. Remember to Breathe!

Aaron Hoopes

#9. In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

Naomi Weisstein

#10. Everytime I write, it's a catharsis. Even if I never got paid for it, I'd feel compelled to do it. And that's what makes a true writer. It's not how many readers you have or how many publishing contracts. Do you love to write? Then you're an author. No one can take that away from you.

Piper Vaughn

#11. The problem with insight, sensitivity, and intuition is that they tend to confirm our biases.

Naomi Weisstein

#12. Think about it, but don't think too much. If you think too much you'll end up doing nothing.

Dalia Sofer

#13. When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short. Of course we're not laughing ... Nobody laughs at the sight of their own blood.

Naomi Weisstein

#14. The thing that demons hate most is the sound of a ticking clock, "for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:12).

Larry Zoro

#15. is usually the refuge of incompetence." Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Garrett Schwanke

#16. The true source of rights is duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. The world and everyone in it is always ready to blame a man for anything when he is already knocked down.

Therese May

#18. Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

Ernestine Rose