Needlessly Gendered Quotes

#1. [On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

Isabella Bird

#2. I believe I am an honorable man.

Joseph J. Ellis

#3. Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

Ana Monnar

#4. You grab onto happiness with two hands, darling. Life's all about the journey. You remember that.

Deborah Lytton

#5. For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.

Kazimir Malevich

#6. Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, 'It's so bitter.'
'What, Mama?'
'Old age.' [p. 187]

Siri Hustvedt

#7. By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

Ben Fountain

#8. The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

Randy Bachman

#9. Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#10. First is the man ... and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

Gino Vannelli

#11. Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do."
"We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?

Holly Black

#12. We think ... that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.

Catherynne M Valente

#13. True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

Adyashanti

#14. Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

Eliot Porter

#15. I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.

Newt Gingrich