1. “If smartphones could talk, they’d be like, “Seriously? You just checked that like five seconds ago!” — Caprice Crane

    “If smartphones could talk, they’d be like, “Seriously? You just checked that like five seconds ago!”

    — Caprice Crane

  2. “Feels like eyeballs but it’s just grapes! Feels like brains but it’s just spaghetti! Feels like love but it’s just vague interest!” — Shelby Fero

    “Feels like eyeballs but it’s just grapes! Feels like brains but it’s just spaghetti! Feels like love but it’s just vague interest!”

    — Shelby Fero

  3. “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

    “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be.”

    — F. Scott Fitzgerald

  4. Gnossienne: (noun) a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life.

    Gnossienne: (noun) a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life.

  5. Sisters are doin’ it for themselves, Standin’ on their own two feet and ringin’ their own bells, We say, “Sisters are doin’ it for themselves.” — The Eurythmics

    Sisters are doin’ it for themselves,

    Standin’ on their own two feet and ringin’ their own bells,

    We say, “Sisters are doin’ it for themselves.”

    — The Eurythmics

  6. “Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions—predigested books and ideas… marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems.

    It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short… and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives.

    It means, therefore, the courage to be “different”… The difference between a life lived actively and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.” 

    — Adrienne Rich

  7. “Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.”  ― Louise Bernikow

    “Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.” 

    ― Louise Bernikow

  8. “Beautiful doesn’t begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.”  — Jeri Smith-Ready

    “Beautiful doesn’t begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.” 

    — Jeri Smith-Ready

  9. “True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.” — Hugh Prather

    “True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.”

    — Hugh Prather

  10. “No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.”  — Wallace Stegner

    “No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.” 

    — Wallace Stegner

About me

Combining disparate sources to educate, elucidate, and entertain. Contact: lateralsymmetry@ gmail.com

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