I mean, I'm just tired of being wrong all the time just because I'm a guy. I mean how many times can everybody tell you that you're the oppressive, prejudiced enemy before you give up and become the enemy. I mean a male, chauvinist pig isn't born, hes made, and more and more of them are being made by women. After long enough you just roll over and accept the fact that you're a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretinist cretin. Women are right. You're wrong. You get used to the idea. You live down to expectations. Even if the shoe doesn't fit, you'll shrink to fill it. I mean, in a world without god aren't mothers the new god? The last sacred unassailable position. Isn't motherhood the last perfect magical miracle? But a miracle that isn't possible for men, and maybe men say they're glad not to give birth, all the pain and blood, but really that's just so much sour grapes. For sure, men can't do anything near as incredible. Upper body strength, abstract thought, phalluses - any advantage men appear to have are pretty token. You can't even hammer a nail with a phallus. Women are already born so far ahead ability - wise. The day a men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
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HARMS We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak." ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE Are you gay, Cherie? Me, No… I’m not anything… I-I mean I prefer not to indulge, I stamm... DARWUN ST. JAMES What is MONEY? a piece of PAPER, a chunk of METAL or just some bits and bytes. It’s been call... HARMON OKINYO No offense, but you're not exactly an expert on judging people's emotions." "I'm not sure what ... ANNA BANKS I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA I've heard you say so many a time That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines... SANHITA BARUAH Just Friends I know that I don't own you, and perhaps I never will, so anger wh... LANG LEAV 1) I love you not for whom you are, but who i am when i'm by your side. 2) No person deser... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Are you really a doctor?” I asked. “Some people say that.” “Why?” “Becaus... MICHAEL BRENT JONES I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never been denied. You try ... ELVIS COSTELLO You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER If a woman truly loves you, you can’t always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more... NICHOLAS SPARKS And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well mak... JANE AUSTEN GOD, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hand... JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... DR. SEUSS They keep telling you, when you’re older, you’ll have experience—and that’s supposed to be s... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly. One day you are just a memb... JOHNA PASSARO In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. There are ten abilities, but no one has more than one—except me. I’m different that way. I have�... QUOLEENA SBROCCA A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough to call you... LEONARD COHEN Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insani... OSHO Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding y... BRANDON STANTON There was something wrong with me. The human body doesn’t want to get hurt. We’re pro... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I watched them tearing a building down, A gang of men in a busy town. With a ho-heave-ho a... EDGAR A. GUEST i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful before i’ve called them intellig... RUPI KAUR Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I got an A on the third quiz in American history, an A, dammit. Last time I got a ... THALIA CHALTAS may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they si... E.E. CUMMINGS Something about you caught me by surprise Though I always knew you’d be my demise. R.S. GREY Just because you feel lost doesn't mean that you are. Sometimes you just ha... LALAH DELIA Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles. Hugo: Men? Why should I love the... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Oh, wow." "What do you think?" "I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much... ELIZABETH HUNTER I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be kill... ILONA ANDREWS Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo. I tell them that all marriages are ... ANN LANDERS I drove by all the places we used to hang out getting wasted I thought about our last kiss, how... 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for t... SHERMAN ALEXIE Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the trut... GERARD WAY I think of you often and make no outward show, But what it means to lose you, no one will ... ANON. Kate, I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage ... AMY PLUM 9/11/01 Gina: Especially today, with the enormity of current events, I want to convey to y... MICHAEL SPEHN And out floated Eeyore. "Eeyore!" cried everybody. 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THOMAS TRAHERNE School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are he... DEYTH BANGER So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled... DAVID LEVITHAN My mom says, "Do you know what the AIDS memorial quilt is all about?" Jump to how much I hate m... CHUCK PALAHNIUK How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you ar... A.A. MILNE If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d... RICHARD DAWKINS The cat's asleep; I whisper "kitten" Till he stirs a little and begins to purr-- He doesn'... RANDALL JARRELL OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn�... KURT VONNEGUT You've known him how long?" Malcolm asked. "Since he was a small boy. I firs noticed him when ... JOHN FLANAGAN I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do suc... PATRICK JENNINGS How do you feel when you want to stand and you see yourself on the floor? Sometimes what God wi... PATIENCE JOHNSON But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if th... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE You don’t understand,” my dad said. “They stop you.” “Who? What are you talkin... CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet the... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you used to own, now they own you. CHUCK PALAHNIUK For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se... CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th... CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you. CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience! CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing? CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you dont know what you want, you end up with a lot you dont CHUCK PALAHNIUK Theres always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for... CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc... CHUCK PALAHNIUK