“I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.” Quote by Sara Quin
“There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.” WorldWantThis WorldCornersCorePocketsTapeLove SomeoneHomophobia Author:Sara Quin
“Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.” IfsSometimesMightParentWorryBabySkinsSellsBeing The BestGarageMy BabyFungiBest ParentsGarage Sale Author:Sara Quin
“If I wasn't in a monogamous gay relationship I would have sex with all of you” IfsSexGayGay Relationship Author:Sara Quin
“The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.” KnowsMayDreamBodyDesireBornKnownBloodShareProfoundPrimitive Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties
“You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.” NeedsImportantDifferentWholeProblemBodyStrongPrinciplesFailingMovementExerciseProgramOrganizationStressTrainCollectionsProductiveOne TimeOrganismsAdaptationBasic Principles Author:Mark Rippetoe
“A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.” PeopleIfsMenRealityHappensWould BeSpiritualStrongIntellectualWeakOffensivePrecedenceSquatWeak Man Author:Mark Rippetoe
“There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.” GrowthLevelsProduceBalanceExerciseActivityDemandMachinesStressBonesPsychologicalNervousConditioningTissuesNervous SystemToughnessStimulationDensityCoordinationSquatEnhancementCentral Nervous System Author:Mark Rippetoe
“Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.” HumansHardEffortNormalAbsenceBarbell Author:Mark Rippetoe