“I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.” ThinkingFeelsShouldKidsShould Have Author:Clare Balding
“Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.” RealizingGay Author:Clare Balding
“It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.” WritingBoringNewsworthy Author:Clare Balding
“I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.” LaughingAbuseHomophobic Author:Clare Balding
“That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.” PeopleWantHumansIdeasEarthSufferingHuman BeingsCrimeGenuineReasonableFrighteningToleratePlague Author:Richard Carrier
“If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.” PeopleIfsWould BeSufferingHeavenMillionsHellForeverKnowingEternalBillionsHorribleTorment Author:Richard Carrier
“To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.” EasyHonestBeing HonestPersist Author:Peter Gizzi
“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.” ProblemNightPleasureMysteryStreetsShapesSummerOrdinaryRainEmptyAbsolutesLuminousSkatesOdorPittsburghMapleSummer RainEmpty Streets Book:The Dance Most of All: Poems Source: The Dance Most of All: Poems