“Why can’t being single and free be as valuable and respected as the role of a mother or wife?”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“When I join a local ceremony, hitchhike across a country, or learn how to ski, do I really need a counterpart there to legitimize that, to legitimize me?”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“What it means is that we are all sick and tired of seeing unarmed people shot by police officers, That young people in African-American communities are harassed by police officers, where police departments are not there to be supportive but are in many cases oppressive, and that’s an issue that has…”— Bernie Sanders, hollywoodreporter.com
“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problems: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.’”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.”— Marilyn Monroe, books.google.com
“As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn’t a particular hair color or a particular body type; it’s the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better.”— Victoria Moran, amazon.com
“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.”— Aberjhani, amazon.com
“The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny—a thousand things, bef…”— J.K Rowling, mentalfloss.com
“You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need—for which you need more money.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“It seems like the better it gets, the more miserable people become. There’s never a technological advancement where people think, ‘Wow, we can finally do this!’ … And I think a lot of it has to do with advertising. Americans have it constantly drilled into our heads, every fucking day, that we deser…”— Eric Spitznagel, vanityfair.com
“A society cannot CONSISTENTLY spew vitriol about gay people, legislate against them, then act like this shooting is an isolated incident.”— Léonicka, twitter.com
“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”— Michael Pollan, amazon.com
“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“Your Government is still on the same side of the street with the Good Samaritan and not with those who pass by on the other side.”— Franklin Roosevelt, millercenter.org