We live in a culture where sex is not so much an act as a thing: a substance that can be given, bought, sold, or stolen, that has a value and a supply-and-demand curve.
— Thomas Macauly Millar, “Toward a Performance Model of Sex”
Street harrassment remains a widespread method of reminding women that they have less of a right to move through public space than men do.
— Jill Filipovic, “Offensive Feminism”
The biggest threat to the conservative traditional ideal? Women.
— Jill Filipovic, “Offensive Feminism”
I think you should kill him and eat his brain,” Mr. Frostee said quickly. “That’s not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations,” Cobb said, hopping out.
— Rudy Rucker, Software
If you’re thinking of turning off your power in order to embrace a sustainable lifestyle, DON’T DO IT. How could you do such a horrible thing? Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in Southern Illinois — think of what they’d do. They’d do their laundry.
— the girlfriend
Arguments for “traditional marriage” still rely on opposite-sex partners and an assumption of complementary roles—and those “complementary” roles assume that the man is in charge and the woman complements him.
— Jill Filipovic, “Offensive Feminism”
I’ll resist with every inch and every breath.
I’ll resist this psychic death.
— Bikini Kill, “Psychic Death”
Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
— Jewish proverb
It’s not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity, and make it work for you.
— Frank Zappa
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
— Will Rogers
What do you call this?” she asked. “Early Victorian? Late Captain Nemo?
— Lilo, The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley
Poetry is a normal by-product of living.
— John Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotline
