“Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.”
“Humanity is higher than religion, so says my religion.”
Source: I Want Back My SPARKLE!: Breaking the global chains of gender slavery.
“This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove that, yes, he did so say that thing he now denied?”
Source: Truly Madly Guilty
“The sooner you decide that it is alright to believe the opposite of what the masses do, and that it is alright to trust the universe, and you choose to be happy rather than be right, the sooner you will be happy.”
“But sometimes the quest for the right answer keeps us from testing a variety of good ones. In search of the right answer, we assume every answer other than the one we've settled on must be wrong. Forgetting that some things have more than one good answer. I'd like to think for example, that the question, "How can I love Ken?" might have many good answers, rather than one right one.”
Source: A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor's Path to Embracing People Who Are Gay, Lesbian and Transgender in the Company of Jesus
“This is what you left, I thought. The vindication of the choice you made to leave that night. Vindication and horror. Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be: how many times in the last few years I thought about bitter fruit, how when what you are right about is-- well you can't even look at it.”
Source: The Dog Stars
“Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.”
Source: Sisters of Glass
“A gilded cage is still a cage”
“In a world of ruins, she was the one thing I wanted to build.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“A gold cage is still a cage.
-King David I
Oh, go cry in a bag of money.
-Queen Christina”
Source: The Royal Treatment