“Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.” MenYearsAgeJobsDiesOpportunityLossLove IsWifeSuicideCommitAttractiveOld ManElevenOne WomanLove LossAge 30 Author:Warren Farrell
“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsMenWantWritingChildrenStillsMatterKidsDiesCoursesChanceSuccessfulTakenHe ManHigherTenSuicideListsNineCommitBelovedNervesInfluentialAnthology Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsDiesDrinkSuicideMadSurpriseCommitSpotsAdolescenceRuinedRottenChins Book:Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years Source: Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsWantWritingKidsDiesTakenAppreciateSuicideCommit Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?” PeopleThinkingWayRealDiesCrimeIdentityTaughtDeserveCommittedCommitSensibleAnother WayWay Of ThinkingReal Questions Author:Bryan Stevenson
“When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.” MindHumansPoliticalDiesLosesHuman BeingsAbilityConditionsDestructionBlameRemainsSuicideCancerIllnessCommitMental IllnessInsaneOppressionDefinedSanityMechanismBentInabilityOngoing Book:Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma