"I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority."

Being, Gender, Majority, Sense

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"I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Difference, Man

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

George Eliot, British Author

Being, Years

"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

Being, Honor, Knight

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning."

Renee Vivien, British Poet

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"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge."

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"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read."

Fact

"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."

Creativity

"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."

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"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"

Time

"There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo."

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"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

"I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning."

Explore more quotes by Susie Bright

"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge."

"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read."

"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."

"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."

"People who love science fiction really do love sex."

"My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist."

"I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto."

"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"

"There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo."

"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in."